If you use too many spacer washers on an open hole pad, the grommet may not be able to hold it. If you use too many spacer washers, the pad gets distorted upon tightening the screw. Flutes however, have the additional problem of pad retention. Many Repairmen do this, and it saves hours of your time. You can tell this by pre-checking as in the sax section. Just use dial calipers like the G5A, which are calibrated in thousandths of an inch, and duplicate the total thickness, IF it was correct in the first place. The real speed trick here is that if the flute was already in good shape and just needed pads, the hard work is already done. Some folks prefer to say 'straightening' instead of 'bending' when it comes to bending keys, but sometimes the key JUST NEEDS to be BENT. So, just get it as close as you can taking into consideration using more or less spacers having the pad centered and/or having the key or keys look in sync with all those around them. If the flute is badly designed or the design was badly executed you won't be able to do anything about this because the hinge rod is in the wrong place or the pad arm is too long or too short. Many times you have to BEND keys in order to adjust them. Starburst type wrinkles are okay, but if extreme you should probably look into bending the key to correct the attack angle to the tone hole (using the E100) and then re-washer so the wrinkles are less severe. Manufacturers usually use the woven felt pads because you don't have to be as accurate, and many Repairmen that work on 'Pro', school horns or with store rental programs usually use the needle felt because they retain your adjustments longer and usually match up better with previously installed woven felt pads that have compacted through use.Īs far as wrinkles go hold the washer when installing the pad, so there are no swirls in the skin. In terms of color, perhaps a request by the customer. The use of woven felt or needle felt is pretty much a personal preference by a repairman.
#EMERSON FLUTE PAD REPLACEMENT OPEN HOLE SKIN#
The B26 and B31 are needle felt pads with yellow or white skin respectively. The B30 and B38 are woven felt with white or yellow skin, respectively. The above mentioned pads represent all that is available in the current world of conventional flute pads, except for the special purpose B29 pads listed below. The cardboard keeps the wool flat and the fish skin seals it. If you don't have this valuable tool, it's pictured on the lower left corner of page 28 in our 2001 green catalog.Īll of the above mentioned pads are high quality wool and fish skin pads backed with single element cardboard, the same as all the conventional manufacturers are currently using. It will fit into the N79 you ALREADY own.
#EMERSON FLUTE PAD REPLACEMENT OPEN HOLE PLUS#
Just order the N79Y punch at only $14.50 plus s/h. And if you pay attention Nothing hard or difficult about adjusting a flute." The B30 and B31 type pads have been industry standards for at least 50 years and the premium quality pads like the yellow skinned B26 and B38 offer a little more pizzazz for the higher quality flutes or just to doll up a student flute.īy the way, Ferree's flute pads fit YAMAHA flutes without any modification but, if you have some small holed pads that you got on sale someplace, we have a new cutter to go into your N79 French Flute open hole pad Punch Set. Nothing hard or difficult about seating pads on a flute. Nothing hard or difficult about leveling pads on a flute. The MAIN THING to know here is, "There is Nothing hard or difficult about putting pads on or in a flute. Because, when it comes to woodwinds, "If you can fix a flute, you can fix anything."
I wonder how many kilo-PASCAL's pressure get built up in the open bore tube? Since a flute seems to have been deemed 'most difficult' we'll go there first. And remember, even if all the holes are blocked perfectly, there's still that big hole at the end. Your fingers have a lot of leaks though, they're called fingerprints. What does a flute pad actually do? Really, it just plugs a hole in the side of the body tube, like your fingers do on 'penny whistles', fifes and recorder type instruments.