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Re: "emergency" pad repair

Author: Katelyn
Date: 2010-05-03 18:56

Once during an outdoor performance, I lost a pad and left my repair kit in my other case. We had about ten minutes to showtime, so going to get it wasn't an option. None of my fellow clarinetists bothered to carry extra pads with them. Luckily one of our percussionists had some gum on him, so I chewed up a piece and stuck some in the pad socket. Surprisingly, it lasted quite well through the performance, and when I got home that night I cleaned up the key and did the old "lighter and glue" trick.

I'm not sure if I would have done that for my grenadilla clarinet, (the one I used is a hard rubber) but it definitely worked in a really big pinch.

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