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Re: Getting cork pads to seat and seal better?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2017-10-03 07:14

Having razor sharp tonehole crowns is pushing grenadilla to it's physical limits as making wood that thin will also make it very fragile, so bits can easily be chipped or break off them which is no good if you're using cork pads as they won't conform to any irregularities as well as leather or synthetic pads.

I've seen fairly new Buffets with leather pads where bits of grenadilla from the toneholes have stuck to them, so going around all the toneholes with thin superglue and levelling them as well as making the crown just that bit thicker will give them more durability.

There is absolutely no reason why toneholes have to be that sharp anyway - even the Buffet E12F clarinets have gone against that and have more German style tonehole bedplaces with a rounded edge to the crown instead of the usual hole punch-style one Buffet are still using because they can get away with it as they're Buffet, just as they can get away with using crappy wavy tenon slots just because they're Buffet and springing the F#/C# key in a crappy manner just because they're Buffet and no-one ever questions them.

Apart from myself that is. Just because they can stake their claim to have been there right at the start of the invention of the Boehm system clarinet, that doesn't mean they're above criticism and they can do what they like as there's a lot to be critical about.

There - that's the sacred cow slain.

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

Post Edited (2017-10-03 07:43)

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