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Author: Molloy
Date: 2008-10-11 13:46
Can someone recommend a source for red leather pads? I tried googling, to no avail.
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-10-12 01:49
Why are you looking for these? Looks?
Maybe you could just take a red magic marker and color regular white pads.
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Author: pewd
Date: 2008-10-12 05:19
for what, a clarinet? or a sax?
tell me this isn't for a chinese made CSO...
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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Author: skennedy
Date: 2008-10-12 07:55
I remember a tech putting red pads on an overhaul on my Evette Schaeffer sp.? clarinet in the early 1960s. Consequently, I know that someone made them at one time.
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Author: Molloy
Date: 2008-10-13 00:27
[ for what, a clarinet? or a sax?
tell me this isn't for a chinese made CSO... ]]
They're for an american made bass clarinet and a hungarian made tarogato
[[ Why are you looking for these? Looks?
Maybe you could just take a red magic marker and color regular white pads. ]]
It is indeed mostly for appearance sake that I want them red. The magic marker idea isn't bad, but I'm afraid they'd come out mottled. There's also a 'historical authenticity' angle, since the tarogato came to me with ancient red leather pads on it and the bass clarinet is an old Penzel Mueller that I want set up to match a PM soprano I have that came to me with old but good red leather pads. Old PM Artist clarinets seem, based on the very small sampling I've handled, to often have red leather; but maybe it's a coincidence.
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-10-13 01:57
I have a few PM clarinets (none with original pads, I guess) and I have never seen red pad on any of them or any other clarinet for that matter.
The only pictures I have seen were on ebay's indian clarinets.
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-10-13 03:16
"The magic marker idea isn't bad, but I'm afraid they'd come out mottled."
If you get the kind with the very very thick tip then you could probably do the entire pad in one or two strokes and the result should be smooth. Or (totally hypothetical, I have no idea what I am taking about) an arts/crafts store might have some kind of alcohol soluble dye (maybe for fabrics??) that you could apply with a brush and get a smooth result.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-10-13 04:32
There is one repairer who is known for using coloured pads. As far as I know, he just uses regular pads and colours them somehow. I don't remember how he does it (someone wrote it once). Some things added to the leather will make it more sticky though.
You can colour the pads with a marker or any colour. Maybe shoe paint? Best would probably be, after the pads are installed, colour everything except the seat so it doesn't actually touch the tone hole rim. If you use brown pads the transition will probably be mostly unoticable.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-10-13 09:54
Molloy, if you're using red pads, then use red sealing wax to install them with.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: stevesklar
Date: 2008-10-13 13:26
I had used red leather pads on a 1960s noblet clarinet i repadded years ago. They existed (at least several years ago) but i'll try and figure out where I had got them for you
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Author: Arlee
Date: 2008-10-13 16:28
OOPS! sorry, unintended double posted response.
![[huh]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie11.gif) sorry....
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Post Edited (2008-10-13 16:40)
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Author: 3dogmom
Date: 2008-10-14 03:12
One of my students just got his old Martin alto sax overhauled at Rayburn in Boston, and they put red leather pads on it. They did a great job and, I have to say, with the silver toned body and the red pads, it's pretty snazzy.
Sue
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