HW Flute Pad Saver

Curious about the warning on the label that it might hold carcinogenic chemicals. I therefore do not leave it inside the clarinet, but I wasn't intending to anyway. I just use it to clean it.That being said, I found the smaller brush needs to be handled gently in the upper clarinet piece, as it sometimes catches on the inner bits.

It fits my alto sax perfectly. I have heard differing points of view about these and the conclusion I have come to is - clean your sax after every use, including the mouth piece. Tip out the excess moisture, use the Pull-Through then place the Pad Saver inside. It is not meant to clean the sax. That's my understanding after much research. I decided to buy this after a professional player, who also repairs saxophones, recommended them. You can leave it in after cleaning or not. As a beginner, I decided to develop the good habit of caring for my instrument after each use.I'll leave the debate to roll on as I'm sure it will. This method is the one I've decided to adopt. I'll clean and then leave this inside.

I use it to clean the straight tube, but have to use a cloth for the bent part. It helps, but I still have to dry some of the pads. Curiously, there must be some component or colourant which comes up on the California harmful chemicals list - so I wouldn't leave it in the tube of my sax.

I haven't used this yet but it looks fine and I appreciated the minimum but necessary packaging was used. Amazon sending way too much packaging normally.

The purchase of this product on Amazon caused me to "accidently" sign up for Amazon Prime AGAIN and me to cancel it YET AGAIN. I deleted all the other products that I had in the basket that I could get elswhere but failed in the short term to find alternative supplier for the product so kept it (it was priced with postage included anyway).I have now resolved to look for all future requirements from other than Amazon until they stop the disgusting habit of duping people into signing up to Prime.

I bought the tenor sax version for my Yamaha instrument. I am an Amazon Prime subscriber and the item was delivered the next day after placing the order. My initial impression is that this is a good purchase and I am pleased with it. There is one problem that I have found though. The pad saver has a collar at the end which protrudes when fully inserted. The result of this is that I cannot leave the pad saver inserted in the saxophone when I put the instrument into its case because it will no longer fit into the shaped storage compartment.

Item arrived on quick time. Well packed for the journey. The pad saver fits my alto sax perfectly. It does its job and is a very gentle fit. I can recommend this pad saver.

The speedy delivery from the company was brilliant, dont think it would have been quicker if they brought it to my door in person.The product fits my Alto sax perfectly and it still fits into the case if I want to leave the pad saver inside. I clean the sax with a pull through first and then will leave this in a while to give it the best chance of getting rid of any moisture I missed. Not having used one of these before, I have nothing to compare it to, but it appears it will do the job it is made for and I am very happy with it.