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My first attempt at replacing the mouthpiece cork was not as successful as I would have liked, and some of it tore. With the more pillowyВ pads I was using and quite a lot of pad adjusting and levelling, I was luckily able to get them to seal. I made them a bit better, but IвЂ™m sure itвЂ™s not perfect. This is not the recommended way to do level these as you canвЂ™t be sure that youвЂ™re doing so correctly, but the proper tools are far too expensive for a hobbyist to own. I also found some of these tone holes to not be level, so I attempted to level them with a diamond flat file. I decided to use the flat resonators from the new pads rather than the originals, which had become rather corroded. Since I didnвЂ™t realize how they worked when I ordered the pads, they came already attached, so I had to remove the attaching rivet. I got to a problem with the lowest pads and the screw-in resonators. Then I was able to start gluing the pads back in, replacing the felts (for which I used a soft brown leather instead) and bumper corks, reattaching the keys, and leveling the pads to the tone holes.

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It was only when I went to remove the pads and clean the cups that I understood what was going on, and meant that I would have to remove the rivet and resonator from the new pad to install them. When I took off the pads and measured these I saw they had a screw holding the flat resonator in but didnвЂ™t realize that they screwed into the cup itself, so when I ordered the pads I gotВ them with flat resonators. I decided to go with their SoftFeel line and to use the same resonators as the originals, which as I mentioned earlier were just normal pads for the smaller ones up to 15mmm (palm and side keys, octave keys, and above left hand first finger), and rivet resonators for all the rest except for the lowest 4 pads which had a flat resonator. Next I measured all the pad cups and ordered new pads from Music Medic. The right hand is also on a single rod, though not so complex.

This is also where a key was bent, making the rod very difficult to unscrew and pull out. I first took off all the keys, which was a bit of a struggle as the whole upper stack and top side key is all attached to a single long rod in a somewhat complex overlapping configuration, so I had to pay careful attention to the order of how the keys went together. Replace various other bumper corks and felts.The things I needed to do to overhaul the instrument were: Repairing that is beyond my humble abilities, so IвЂ™ve left them.

There are some small dings in the body, but nothing major. ThereвЂ™s no neckstrap hook, but a place on the back where it looks like one may have been at one point but became unsoldered and come (or taken) off. It was blocking the pad immediately above it from opening, so had to be adjusted. The thumb hook looks like itвЂ™s a replacementвЂ¦ just a piece of metal soldered on and bent to a curve. The original pads used a rivet resonator for all larger thanВ 15mm, except for the lowest 4 pinky-key pads (C#-Bb), which have a screw-on flat resonator (which I didnвЂ™t entirely realize until I was taking it offвЂ¦ more on that later). No front high F, a вЂњnail fileвЂќ G#, and the rest of the left hand pinky keys inline.

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Cazzani, Ditte Riunite circular logo, serial number 4xxx (havenвЂ™t been able to determine the year it was built yet). The saxophone is a one-piece straight silver soprano with a copper wash on the inside of the bell, by A.

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