Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2000-11-29 08:34
The white pads will look far worse as they get grubby and possibly mouldy, and absorb dye from the timber. My stock of white pads for bassoons tends to show spots of discolouration, presumably from a mould, but I never have this problem with stocks of tan clarinet pads from the same source. This could be something to do with the bleaching process required to achieve a nice white, or it could be that a mould likes living on a whitening pigment used, or mould doesn't like living on the tan pigment, or perhaps the spots just aren't visible on a tan background, or even just that the tan absorbs more UV light which kills mould. So I DON'T think they are identical, simply because of the materials used for the finished colour. Is that a good enough case for going tan?
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