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Re: Needing thin pads

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2021-02-27 22:36

I have run into the same need with a Leblanc Opus. The original leather pads were still in it (they were installed so as to be barely visible beyond the edge of the cups) but I wanted to change to Valentino Masters. I went to a tech who was unfortunately not that experienced and he put them in "as is." The pads protrude too far out of the cups and and the choice now is to have the tone holes covered too much or to bend keys. When I bend the RH sliver key, the thickness of its architecture makes playing technique almost impossible (the tone hole bumps open ALL THE TIME).

So can standard Masters pads be thinned down? Do you have to order special thin ones?

...............Paul Aviles

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