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Re: Thoughts on the following repair tech quote?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2020-01-14 21:17

How many open standing main action keys are on clarinets? Usually three - LH1, LH2 and the RH ring keys. The only ones that will create some noise when cork padded are the LH2 and RH ring keys as LH1 remains closed whilst the left thumb is held down or when LH1 is raised and lowered whilst the left thumb is off the thumb ring.

As for cork pads being noisy, the sound doesn't carry all that far whilst playing. I had someone ask me how noisy they were and I got them to play an upper register F#-G trill on my clarinet which is cork padded down to the RH3 B/F# 'sliver' key.

I was sat right next to them in a theatre pit and I couldn't hear the pad noise - just the F#-G trill even with them hammering down RH2. Maybe a close mic can pick up the pad noise in a recording studio, but on the whole you're more likely to hear mechanical noise than pad noise just as you tend to hear with oboes (which I prefer to cork pad throughout).

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

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