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 Re: Fish skin or brown leather?
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2015-05-24 16:33

Leather pads are used on oboes - usually in the largest pad cups and some may even leather pad the low C# and Eb pads too. I prefer to cork pad oboes throughout as that makes for a very positive feel.

I've recently found that cork pads installed in sax lower 8ve vents don't work so well in practice. While they initially seal and work well, the heavy spring tension on the LH3 key puts far too much pressure on the lower 8ve vent pad and compresses it against the 8ve bush, so they can stick after a while. They're fine on the crook key as the spring tension is much lower, but on the lower vent it's best installing a leather pad which is made from leather without the plastic coating, such as a kangaroo leather pad.

On the side and trill keys on clarinets, it helps on instruments like Buffets that have really strong spring tension to reduce that if you're installing cork pads as they don't need excessive spring tension to make sure they close.

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