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Toni
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Hello everyone! It has been a while since I have posted my own thread. Anyway, I have been having a pesky problem with my C#/G# key. After a while of playing, the pad tends to become saturated with moisture and the notes using the key do not work. I know how to dry out the pad a little, but the water still comes back. I have a Buffet clairnet and I've asked other Buffet owners if it happens to their clarinets, and they have confirmed that it does! It isn't a real problem in class because I can simply swab it out, but I can't just stop playing during a concert and get all of the condensation out of my instrument! I'll just have to figure out a way to make it stop. Any suggestions? 
-Toni
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bubbles3
(20 points)
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do you have felt or leather pads? that happened on my felt pads, and when i got them replaced i got leather pads and it didn't seem to happen anymore.
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Lera
(1403 points)
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Try what Bubbles said, it usualy works whell.
If you can't get them try asking your band derector to see what His/Hers sudgestions would be.
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Micron
(1483 points)
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It is worse if:
1. The pad does not open far enough, because of the shape of the key, or the thickness of the silencing cork.
2. The pad is too thick, so it does not open far enough.
3. The tone hole has muck in it.
4. The pad does not close with equal pressure around the tone hole.
5. The key's spring is too weak.
6. There is too much friction somewhere, so that the spring cannot easily fully close the pad. Examples are rust in the pivot, or bent pivot.
7. You are blowing a heap of saliva down the instrument. There should be no saliva, just moist air.
8. The clarinet is wooden and no bore oil is used. (Google Doctors Products for a decent bore oil.)
But probably the worst culprit is that when you are not playing, you rest or tip the instrument in such a way (perhaps on your lap?) that condensation pours into that hole.
Felt/membrane pads are punctured at the side as part of the installation procedure. If the sides get wet, then the moisture can soak into the felt inside, swelling the pad and stopping the pad from sealing against the tone hole.
Cork pads give a lot less trouble if they get wet. Also, synthetic "Greenback" pads and "Omni" pads are impervious to water, and have a good reputation.
Leather does not behave particularly well when it repeatedly gets wet.
If you want reliable technical information, you are far more likely to find it in a forum where there are experts who visit regularly, i.e. at clarinet.org
Lera, why do you keep on answering questions pretending you are some sort of expert, when you are definitely not? I find it quite dishonest, and certainly misleading.
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Toni
(416 points)
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Hmmmm.... Micron, I think you've got a point. I do tend to rest my instrument on my lap and I guess I may be tilting it so that the condensation runs into the pad! By George! That's the problem! Thanks!
-Toni
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