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Re: What sort of pad is this?

Author: Reformed
Date: 2023-07-20 12:18

Thanks, as Donald says that would be a real coincidence!

I bought the instrument from someone in Somerset via the auction site, he hasn't been forthcoming with any information about history.

The clarinet clearly has hardly been played since a very good refurbishment. The open pads have very little indentation, but the closed pads are well indented.

The odd pads are on the complete bottom joint and the throat G#/A keys, all others are tan leather and show no sign of water contact or other discolouration. It plays quite well after a bit of pad height adjustment.

I had 2 motives in acquiring this:

- to see how German mouthpieces played on a 926 (quite well), and

- To add to my growing collection of mid-20th century English clarinets. I believe that it is the first of the Imperials made after the war.

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