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Re: Repadding Clarinet

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-01-19 09:31

Well you have one of the best horns made. I'm not sure if you plan on re-padding the horn yourself or have someone do it. Since this is such a great horn I'd spend the money and have the best repairman around and have cork pads put on the upper register. However I don't know anything about superpads. In the USA I like the Valentino green back pads which are plastic pads and seal very well and don't wear out.

There are leather pads too but I strongly feel they can deaden the sound, such as on the Yamaha CSVR clarinets so I use cork pads on the upper register to get that ring and I got rid of the leather pads on the lower joint with the above Valentino's.

Players may think I'm totally goofy, but before you decide on this look at sax pads. Sax pads are of course leather but they have plastic resonators on some of the pads to get rid of that dead sound.

As players we have to be very careful with what we hear as our ears can fool us. For example the saxes I have all ring well because of pad choice and the sound carries. The same is with the clarinets. The cork pads are becoming less used and players ears think the new sound is better, but be careful that your sound still projects well. Lastly cork pads tend to last for years and years. In the old days I made cork pads out of wine bottle cork. But the cork you get now is very good and the only thing I do is sand the cork with 3000 grit sandpaper to get a great finish on the pad.

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