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Re: Repadding salt cellar keys

Author: dubrosa22
Date: 2017-11-28 03:53

I thought they were referred to as 'saltspoon' keys?

Terry McGee, flutemaker and historian, has a short description of repadding these types of keys on his excellent website:
http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/repad.html

Kelly Roudabush has a much more comprehensive, great visual step-by-step of the process (archived) here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150213203127/https://www.kellyroudabush.com/purse-pads

These 'saltspoon' keys were very popular in the first hallf of the 19th century. They replaced the 18th century 'flap' style key and are definitely easier to seat as they sort of just squash into the tonehole more or less. I guessing any woodwind player worth his salt could fashion his own quite easily at home and afix it to the keycup with wax as was the tradition.

I've got two saltspooned flutes (an 1820s English fake Monzani 8-key and a 1840s English Metzler 8-key) needing repadding but haven't got 'round to them yet, so I've not yet grappled with the problems of making leather 'pad purses'.

I'm sure that the difference between flute and clarinet saltspoon pads was not very much.

Good luck