Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-07-24 15:46
Pad orders are all up in the air at the moment. Howarth had been waiting for an order since November and only got them through last week. I've been waiting for pads as well and have absolutely no idea when they'll arrive and because of that, I've had to put sax overhauls on hold until normality resumes. I'm not going to put my neck on the line and compromise myself by sourcing cheap, low quality pads as that'll only bite me on the arse if they're not up to the task, so I'll just have to wait and put customers on hold in the interim.
Glotin/CLG and Martin Chanu no longer supply pads which were my go-to leather pads for oboes and clarinets (and the same ones Howarth used), so it's a case of waiting for Pisoni to catch up with the backlog - I can only assume they're prioritising large volume makers like Buffet, then smaller companies like Howarth have to wait and then independent repairers like myself and others are at the back of the queue.
I do still have some sets of Pisoni Pro CLS synthetic pads which I've been using as standard on clarinet overhauls, but found the white ones will show up the staining from the wood and the dye Buffet use to make the wood look uniform on their clarinet models below Prestige level ones.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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