How to level a traditional saxophone pad!  

Ammmmmazing video tutorial! TY so much!

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Thanks for another great, informative video. This answered a question that had stumped me -- how can the leveling rings make the pad level, when the thickness of the ring causes the key cup not to close evenly? Now I see that the leveling ring is just the first step for the pad leveling process. Thanks again!

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There's no need to clamp pads closed. If pads are good, i just don't waste my time for wedging, clamping etc.. Even with cheap chinese pads (but not all). There were situations when i needed my sax to repad just a day or two before performance and needed to do it fast, had no problem. And there were couple of times when pads were leveled perfectly right away. No special tools needed, just a torch with thin flame, screwdriver, shellac, light inside the instrument, a bit of time and patience. Sometimes a piece of cardboard is needed to level a pad (when you don't want to bend cap to make it level, but it's not that bad) and it works just fine, didn't have a problem with it. I know that from professional point of wiew that is not good, but in real life when you need to get instrument working in short time, it's just fine and then, when you have a bit more time, can return to that cap and repair it.

Only ever worked on clarinets. About to take on a full pad replacement on a sax. How would you test each pad once seated? Screw back in one at a time, feelers, and then adjust off the horn or keep on?

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What about instead of using a small blob or dot of shellac in the center of the pad, using a bed of shellac that covers the entire surface of the pad, just not quite to the edge? Not necessarily a ‘thick’ bed but reaching throughout the back of it. Then flattening out this bed on an anvil. Wouldn’t that give you a more secure and more likely void free adhesive, and make leveling the pad easier?

nice video, got one question for you , if i change my pad and install the key and use the leak light and there's no light coming out around the key, why would i need a pad leveler ?

How can you tell where old pads are leaking if they've got indentations from the tone holes already?

Why not just put flake shellac in the cup heat on a frame put pad in, mount key straight back on to the instrument, levelling set, this takes about a minute. I do a full overhaul on Alto levelling tone pad and Cork within 5 to 6 hours, the way you guys do it will probably take 2 days. Kev

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what would cause my middle a and b notes to sound weird every once in a while,meaning one time in a frase its o.k then the next time in the frase its not o.k.

Is temperature in Farenhei or in Celcius ?

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