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RE: Pad questions

Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-04-11 08:02

But if you do an air pressure leak test (sucking, or probably more validly, squirting a mouthful of air, with a cork in the end of a body section) do you find that the instrument leaks significantly compared with bladder pads?
A plastic instrument well paded with bladder pads does not leak at all. I suspect many timber clarinets leak slightly through the grain at places like tone hole edges. I would EXPECT leather pads to leak slightly, but perhaps they eventually fill with gunge and become non-porous.

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David Kinder

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