Pads

All kinds of pads for sax, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, …


CNC machinery for the cutting of felt discs

Music Center SpA is the largest manufacturer of pads for brass & wood-wind musical instruments in the world, supplying all major woodwind instrument producers and the biggest wholesalers of repair tools and supplies.

Nowadays, Music Center produces more than 200,000 different kinds of pads. You can find all kinds of pads for saxophone, clarinet, flute, piccolo, oboe, english horn, bassoon, contrabassoon and recorder, with different technical aspects and qualitiy. It is possible to have different kinds of felt, leather, bladder, resonators, cardboard with customer brand name, addition of other materials, … Then, there are different diameters, thicknesses, holes, … 

Pad sets are available for the following instruments: Altus, Amati, Armstrong, Artley, B&S, Blessing, Boosey & Hawkes, Borgani, Branner Brothers, Buffet Crampon, Bulgheroni, Bundy, Burkhart & Phelan, Conn, Dixon, Emerson, Fox, Gemeinhardt, Grassi, Guo, Hammerscmidt, Hammig, Haynes, Howarth, Jupiter, Keilwerth, King, Kreul, Kung, L.A. Sax, Leblanc, Linton, Loree, Marigaux, Mateki, Miyazawa, Moeck, Mollenhauer, Moosmann, Muramatsu, Noblet, Orsi, Patricola, Pearl, Powell, Püchner, Rampone & Cazzani, Ripamonti, Sankyo, Schreiber, Selmer Paris, Selmer U.S.A., Takumi, Trevor James, Vito, Wenner, Weril, Yamaha, Yanagisawa, and many others. 

Generally speaking there are available "standard" quality and "deluxe" quality pads. The level of quality is generated above all by the quality of the raw materials used but also by the production process and by the quality controls and final selection. But there are available also other qualities.

For example among the flute pads, there are available 6 levels of quality: "Mypads" for the "standard" quality, "Premium deluxe" for the "deluxe" quality with wowen felt; "Lucien deluxe" for the "deluxe" quality with special treated pressed felt; "Blue Sound" and "Red Sound" for professional flutes and "STAR LP" for the best professional flutes. The "Sound" series and the "STAR LP" are not traditional pads, assembled using new materials such as a kind of synthetic material and a light metal, whose quality is enthusiastically appreciated by many important players and handmade flute makers .

For the clarinet, there are available pads with bladder or with leather, in "standard" or "deluxe" quality. All kinds of felts, special bladders, many different types of leather, give the possibility to create the right pad to each brand 

There is available an excellent deluxe waterproof leather used both for clarinet pads and above all for sax pads, of the "deluxe waterproof" quality serie. It is now available a special waterproof leather in dark brown colour.

For some bassoon pads it is used a very smooth goat leather and a special green felt, which give interesting features to those pads.

The success of Music Center SPA in making pads is due to a long tradition of more than 25 years, to the continuous cooperation with customers and with suppliers of raw materials. A constant technological research and development guarantee a high productivity and excellent quality at reasonable prices. 

Music Center SPA combines the best tradition of Italian craftsmanship, the finest raw materials and the most advanced industrial technology by using special automatic machinery
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CNC machinery for the cutting of cardboard discs

The most advanced technology and automatic machinery

Automatic operations on the pads
 
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