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 Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: JamesOrlandoGarcia 
Date:   2016-02-04 05:10
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I just had the privilege of having one of the most hard working and in demand repairman work on my A clarinet before playing a concerto. He added what looks like a rounded cork to the center of the pad. It don't know how, but it makes popping to the clarion to the altissimo much easier. I attached a picture of it.

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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: Matt74 
Date:   2016-02-04 07:20

Is it just the Ab/Eb? What kind of clarinet do you have?

It looks like there is a piece of cork in the tone hole as well.

- Matthew Simington


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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: JamesOrlandoGarcia 
Date:   2016-02-04 10:07

It's a Yamaha CSGII A clarinet. There is a cork liner on the side of the tone hole to bring down the pitch. I find that note is almost always on all makes more sharp than I'd like when bringing the pitch D# down when I am the third of a chord.

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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: SarahC 
Date:   2016-02-04 13:32

Wow!!!!!! looks fiddly.

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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: Steven Ocone 
Date:   2016-02-04 17:46

I'll have to try this out. I have tried similar modifications on other pads without any noticeable effect. I'm wondering what other work was done on the clarinet and if at least some of the improvements you notice were due to more mundane changes.

Steve Ocone


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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2016-02-04 18:00

If it's making a significant difference, then a more durable version can be made from delrin and screwed in place from the back of the pad. Plus it can be removed and fitted to a new pad when that one gets worn out.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: bmcgar 2017
Date:   2016-02-06 19:59

Some call this a "pinocchio."

Although I've never seen it on any of the other pads on the clarinet, it's not that rare on register keys. I installed one on the register key of my A clarinet. Made no difference on either of my Bbs (a Rossi and an R13), though.

I suspect, though I have no personal empirical evidence to support this, that at least on the register key, a pinnochio often compensates for a poorly vented pad that's too high off of the tone hole when opened.

B.

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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2016-02-06 20:14

Don't you mean it often compensates for a poorly vented pad that's not opening anywhere near enough?

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: bmcgar 2017
Date:   2016-02-07 20:18

Chris, no, actually I mean a register key pad that's actually opening too much.

As I understand it, the pinocchio cuts down the air turbulence around the opening of the register tube, making the note speak more quickly and without noise, which I guess some people call "grunts."

What I've been told, and what works for me, is that the register key pad should only open as far as necessary for those notes that use it to speak easily. The pinnochio would compensate for this somewhat.

I have no idea how this might work on a larger pad such as the Eb/Ab tone hole. Possibly the only affect is to change the pitch, which is all that the original poster mentions, not the timbre.

Never came across this in my last 100 years of playing. Interesting to hear new things, though.

B.



Post Edited (2016-02-08 05:17)

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 Re: Cool Eb Key Pad Modification
Author: DAVE 
Date:   2016-02-08 12:58

Maybe that note is too sharp because that key is opening way too high?

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