Ferree's NEW Select B26 Flute Pads
with the ALL New
Thin Select
B7 and B8's, described
below.
~With Select yellow skins and Prime needle felt,
and using your Patience and Skill you can
achieve an Optimum job~
The perfectly engineered pad for both Repads and Repairs.
These
Select
B26 De'Jur Flute pads should satisfy everyone's taste for quality, endurance and cache'.
New Select needle felt B26 is on the left, with woven OEM B38, on
right.
B26
is more squared, as are the Select B7 and B8; you can see the B38's weave.
I have always liked the performance of a needle felt pad over a
woven felt pad. I like the dependability, the endurance and the ease of
regulation. I don't mind that they take a little longer to install because
they must be more perfectly leveled due to the lack of flexibility and
forgiveness provided by the softer woven felt pads. Some manufacturers are
following suite on this idea and have switched to needle felt, too. I realize this
is a personal preference situation. After using these for a while, YOU
will be better!
Follow me on this for a moment.
Several manufacturers are now using
an OEM yellow skin pad for production and YOU are going to have to repair them.
Others have gone to thinner pads, too; for whatever reason.
Which, will mean for you; mixing
pad types. There are two potential mixes. One of color and one of firmness.
The color one is taken
care of with the woven OEM B38 and the addition of this new Select needle felt B26 pad (both
being yellow and both being .114" or 2.9mm thick). The firmness issue in white pads was either
the OEM B30 (woven) or
the firmer Deluxe B31 (needle felt), both being .114" or 2.9mm thick. The B38, is like the
OEM woven felt yellow pad
now being used by manufacturers.
Now, the Select B26 WILL be the pad that most Reparaturs will use when working on a
flute that came from the factory with yellow pads. WHY? Here is my
reasoning:
If you are working on a flute that has been "in the field" (used) for a few
years; the OEM woven pads
that were installed by the factory will have packed down to a firmer feel.
If you put in a new woven
pad, it will "feel mushy" compared to the pads it must work with. This will make it harder
for you to regulate
and it will "feel funny" to the player because, it won't match the firmer feel of the
other surrounding pads.
On a Repad, the same "compaction" will have happened when it is brought to you
to be re-done and, the player is not going to remember how "mushy" it was when they got it, four
or five years ago; compounded by the fact they knew nothing back then about "feel,
action or response". They just know that it "felt good" to
them when they brought it to you and now it is "LOOSE" or MUSHY.
SO, when you do a Repad
on the flute and use needle felt pads, you are restoring the feel, action and response
the player has grown used to; except, it now has new pads in it, that with normal
care should last until after they graduate.
These aren't tools, but, they are very important, too!
The New Select B26 pads are just $12.80/dz. or $91.30/100
Original Equipment type B38's are $10.40/dz. or $74.30/100
Ferree's Now has these two new THINNER, doubleskin,
needlefelt pads
in both White and Yellow!
These new design thinner, Select pads: B7 (white) and B8
(yellow) are .098" (2.5mm) thick,
which will fit many upscale and Asian
flutes. All the reasons for using these are above. These are just
thinner to fit some newer specifications. If you wish the softer, woven, thin
pads, in White, we have had them since the beginning; as OEM B29, dual purpose.
(For
the old Gemeinhardt's with the
"cookie cutter" tone holes and metal pad backing washers
and all the new stuff, from "who knows where".)
These New Thin Select pads are numbered as follows:
B7, white/needlefelt and B8, yellow/needlefelt
Both colors are $12.80/dz. or $91.30/100
All Ferree's pads are to OEM specifications or Better.
(OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer)
Ferree's Tools-"Because
they work!"
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