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Re: Buffet Prodige or Buffet Premium ? Help me.

Author: Chris P
Date: 2017-09-04 03:01

Leather pads are more durable than skin pads. As for the difference they have to the tone, I doubt it's going to even be noticed just as much as one clarinet can sound different to another even though they're both the same make and model.

When the B10 was first launched back in the late '90s, they had Valentino pads fitted as standard. But within a year or so, there were a lot of them being returned as the pads were sticking to the toneholes like anything. So Schreiber cured that by installing skin pads as they did on the B12.

I set up a brand new E12F within the last two years and that had leather pads installed in it, plus it had very 'pad-friendly' toneholes in they had rounded edges to the crowns instead of your typical razor sharp Buffet ones which punch nice discs out of skin pads (and they often have nicks, chips or vessels running across them).

So if the Protégé has leather pads, then that's definitely a bonus.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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