Author: Kalashnikirby
Date: 2018-10-03 19:53
Ever since I started overhauling clarinets as a hobby, I had to learn that the cup diameter of a clarinet doesn't necessarily have to be the actual pad diameter.
At the same time, here in Germany, Pisoni pads are incredibly popular and it's difficult to find anything different as a private person. For some reason, their premium deluxe skin pads are shouldered, but their leather pads arent, and I always had a hard time fitting the usually recommended 9,5mm leather pad into a 8.75mm Buffet cup. By the way, thats also a common size for Yamaha upper joints.
Obviously, this problem cannot really be solved by pressing a leather pad into the cup, hoping it forms some kind of shoulder on its own (it doesn't and always slightly exceeds the original pad height); but WHY, WHYYYY did those manufacturers have to produce too small cups for relatively large tone holes? Why not make them .75mm larger? On German system clarinets, the pad sizes usually matches the cup size, and thus the ever so popular Pisoni pad fits without problems.
Anyways, is there any solution to this? Looking at dawkes.co.uk, they now offer Buffet sized procls pad sets. They also stock Lucien deluxe, but I'm not so much a fan of skin pads, especially not on the lower joint (although unshouldered pads for the larger cups wouldn't be an issue there)
Best regards
Christian
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