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Re: non- sticky pads?

Author: m1964
Date: 2020-10-28 06:33

David Spiegelthal wrote:
"I've had numerous 'sticky pad' problems over the years, mostly with bass clarinet octave vents and upper joint oboe pads. The solution is CORK pads. Bladder pads are prone to stick, leather pads slightly less so but still prone, and the only synthetic pads I've tried in the past (Valentino and Norbeck) were the worst of all.
Unfortunately good cork pads are rather expensive and are hard to seat properly (the tonehole rim must be completely level and free of nicks or dips); but they work well."

Thanks a lot to everyone who replied to my OP.
When it happened, I took the key off and cleaned the pad and the tone hole with alcohol - it looked like the alcohol started taking the white layer off the surface of the Buffet's synthetic pad and revealing some gray spots on the surface of the pad.
And even that the pad is not sticking now, it makes that little sound that tells me it will start sticking again.

I had good experience with cork pads from JLSmith.
The clarinet is practically new (just over one y. o.), so fitting the cork pad would not be a problem.
I was afraid that the cork pad would make open G even brighter than it is now, but I probably could "play" with key opening height.
In any case, I will try the Yamaha paper first before replacing anything.
Thanks

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