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Re: What are these dark pads?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-09-16 04:24

Yes you can get these. However they are not the top priced Valentino's top brands. I found them to be just a shade spongy for a lack of words, just a shade to much give when pressing down, but that's just me. I tend to prefer firm pads and these Master Pads are not soft but just soft to me. For most musicians they work fine and they will last a long time.

I may sound a bit wacky about this, but I like cork pads on the upper half of horns and hard pads on the lower registers of clarinets. Here's why - I think soft pads can deaden the sound of your horns. It's that simple. Before you disagree with me lets look at saxophones for a second. A lot of the sax pads have plastic resonators around the leather pads so the sax sound isn't too dead sounding and it vibrates and projects with the resonators! Not a lot, but it really helps. I have them on my horns, but not on every key, because a lot of keys don't open that often.

These little tiny things I feel make us sound so much better and can add confidence to our playing just knowing our sound is better than it was.

So I prefer the harder Green Pad line and the cost is a bit more, but we are looking at maybe just a dollar per pad at the most, depending on the size of the pad and for what instrument. Often just 10 cents.

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