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Jupiter JCL-731 Questions

Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-10-28 20:05

At this moment I am cleaning and conditioning a Jupiter JCL-731 ( 100865 ) I recently purchased. Although very grimy it is in otherwise excellent condition with wear free keys and body. So far I have cleaned all the upper section keys and pads other than the trill keys. With freshly cleaned and oiled toneholes it is sounding quite excellent.It has a unique crisp tonal character that is distinctly different from all my other clarinets. As I play it I am growing very attached to it.
My first questions are what year is it? During what years were they made ? Is this a low or high intermediate student clarinet ? Looking online I have not found answers to any of these questions.
In the quest for maximum resonance preservation I have often wondered about making pads from hardened vegetable tanned leather.Yesterday I learned that some people install natural cork pads on all upper section keys to serve that purpose. Both materials are readily avaiable to me . The pads are easily made by super glueing a piece of raw material to the end of a cylindrical dremel grindstone and turning it against a belt sander. In the past I have made cork register key pads in this fashion.Has anyone here heard of using hard leather for home made high resonance pads?

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