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No more sticky sax pads!

TO USE A PAD-STICK, stick it between a pad and tonehole. The Stick is stiff enough to allow wielding it with one hand, making it useful instead of aggravating. Use light pressure on the pad cup, and draw the Stick through a couple of times. The offending stickiness should be dealt with.

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Hi all you sax players. My name is DOUG JAMES and I have been playing gigs all over the world, indoor, outdoor, spring, summer, fall and winter, in places so humid you thought you were inside a fat guy’s shorts. And I have suffered much from something you all know about-- sticky pads.

When my business partner Tom came up to me with an idea about how to take care of that, I said I tried the dollar bill and all the powders, and I gave up, and basically I just unstick things before I play. The idea he had seemed plausible, and after several months of trying out material we have something you can use right on the stand to get at that sticky pad right away. Now I just go through my horn before a gig or recording session and have peace of mind in at least one area. Try it out, you don’t have to have sticky pads anymore.

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PAD-STICK came to me in a dream. No. PAD-STICK came to me as a scheme. No. I was steamed ‘cause my pads needed cleaned.

I’ve been around lots of saxophones for a long time. And I get out and play as much as I can-- blues, r&b, jazz. Now I’m even playing rock’n’roll-- surely it is the end times. But I digress....

Sticky pads have bothered me as much as anyone else. I would spread open a silk swab and use it to clean pad and tonehole, dragging it through. The idea of the PAD-STICK evolved from that.

I brought it up to my partner Doug James at an opportune moment. After much R&D, we have arrived at this. PAD-STICKs aren’t imported, they’ve never consorted, been deported. They have never felt the harsh wing-tipped glare of the soulless plastic-packed nowhere. They are handmade, by me and Doug.

You can use it while you’re practicing, but most importantly, you can use it on the bandstand. I keep one in my pocket at a gig for the inevitable sticking of the low C# on my lightly sprung Super 20 tenor. Slip the PAD-STICK between pad and tonehole, use a light pressure and draw it through a couple of times. That should take care of it.