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 Re: Fish skin or brown leather?
Author: Vytas 
Date:   2007-01-21 23:43

> *** Don't leather pads tend to get sticky on clarinets? ...worse than saxophones?? Is there anything one can do about this? *** <

Don't leather gloves tend to get sticky?

The short answer is NO but you can create many circumstances when leather (or any) pad might become sticky.

1. Oily/dirty tone holes.
2. Wrong type of dye used to color the leather.
3. Use of waterproofing agents on leather (unnecessary IMO)

Even being porous leather pads don't leak and seal better than bladder or cork pads. Leather pads easily pass vacuum test with better results than other pads. If the leather pads had a tendency to leak just because they are porous they would be completely unusable. There's is no way these pads were able to hold vacuum even for a second if they leaked. Of course the "seal better" part is not than important as any correctly installed pad is good enough for clarinet. A clarinet does not operate in these (vacuum) conditions and this test is used to detect leaks only. I don't think a clarinet that holds vacuum for 30 seconds will perform any better from the clarinet that holds vacuum for 5 seconds. It's irrelevant because any leak in the clarinet will definitely fail any vacuum test.

Leather pads are unsuitable on the old design wrap-around register key.

Vytas Krass
Clarinet Repair
Professional clarinet technician
Custom clarinet mouthpiece maker
Former professional clarinet player
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