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 Re: Cork vs. Bladder pads
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2006-08-27 18:47

"...and said cork was old fashioned."

I resent that statement when I hear it.

I was told this by a repairer in my area when I showed him my old Selmer N-series CT which I'd just rebuilt, replated, bushed every smaller tonehole with PVC, fitted new screws throughout, etc. etc. and cork padded as I had the ideal toneholes for cork pads which were my first choice of pads - skin pads aren't an option for me, I can't stand the things.

I've been partially cork padding clarinets since 1987 and most big named companies had previously only been putting a cork pad in ths speaker key (and Yamaha even cork padded both 8ve keys on their 61 series saxes in the '70s), and only really started adding more cork pads since the mid '90s - now you see both Buffet and Leblanc using them freely, so it's hardly 'old fashioned' - leather pads are 'old fashioned', and the repairer in question that told me cork pads were 'old fashioned' only said that because he couldn't manage to get cork pads to seat and threw in the towel after failing to seat just one! And out of the three main types of pads, leather are by far the easiest to work with.

If cork pads are 'old fashioned', why don't you see cork pads on old fashioned clarinets? They have leather pads, in some sort or other.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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