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Re: Cork vs. Bladder pads

Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-08-27 19:32

When I started at Howarth I used to use Pisoni synthetic pads, these were a high density white foam and they worked very well - they were easy to seat, made the joints completely airtight, were nice and flat and silent.

But a newer batch that came through had larger bubbles throughout and on the surface making them leak like sieves, so it was back to cork pads as these synthetic were abandoned. Another failure were the brown Valentino pads which were also porous, though the white ones worked well after heating them up (with a hairdryer) to flatten them out.

Another factor in abandoning synthetic pads was snobbery - some teachers thought synthetic pads were cheap, didn't like the look of them and thought they shouldn't be used on student oboes, though there was no denying that when they worked (before the quality dropped), they worked.

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

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