Toptone neoprene pads

[joel payne]

Can anyone help me locate information on Toptone neoprene pads? Several leads that I had were old and proved to be dead ends. Anyone with experience using these pads please share your thoughts.

[milandro]

Can anyone help me locate information on Toptone neoprene pads? Several leads that I had were old and proved to be dead ends. Anyone with experience using these pads please share your thoughts.


apparently this shop applies toptone pads onto saxophones , the mentioned price doesn't seem to be so bad.

http://www.musique-son.ch/fr/toptone.html

I've tried a Toptone sax with titanium keys today in a shop there was something wrong about the high register somehow (I am a rather unskilled musician though...)but the feeling of ease and the general feel of the horn was quite something else.

[joel payne]

Thanks.

[milandro]

Yesterday, quite by chance, I visited a Saxophone shop and repair and maintenance workshop in the East of the country in Deventer , The Netherlands in Europe.

http://www.saxofoonwinkel.nl/

They are specialists in the application of the Toptone pads (toptone is a Dutch invention) which are applied to all saxophones, both young or vintage. I was most impressed by their capabiity and the fact that they are actually very nice people too! I was there just to buy a few odds and ends but they were full of very good advice, they let me try at leisure a splendid Toptone saxophone and offered (!) without being asked (I did't dare doing that...) to make me try one of the two Graftons which they had been providing with toptone pads (believe me this is something else!) .

I strongly recommend anyone to get in touch with them concerning toptone issues or any other technical questions. I can witness the fact that anything in the shop looked very well made and every saxophone I touched felt really great.:)