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Re: Noisy pad

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-07-25 06:36

You should pick up a couple of packages of cigarette paper (not cigar paper - I think they wrap cigars with tobacco leaves). It's good for blotting water that accumulates in a tone hole and starts gurgling. The you can take one piece out of the package, cut it to a long, almost pointy shape and use it as a feeler to test pad seating. Carry the pack in your clarinet case for when you need to blot a tone hole (unless you are an American student in grades K-12, in which case you may be accused of possessing drug paraphernalia).

Yamaha (maybe other music instrument companies) sells a pack of similar paper marketed specifically for woodwind players (which may avoid the paraphernalia charge at school), but I think those papers are larger and more expensive than generic cigarette paper bought from a tobacco shop.

Karl

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