I made a mistake in the title, should have said ‘Physically lower the Key Pads’, or the pads above the tone holes on the sax, where you get leaking pads.
because the pads are so high above the holes in the sax, this allows you to physically bend pitches down by lowering the pads halfway without closing the holes. So if you play mid G, by pressing the F key slightly, allows you to bend the mid G pitch down.
What i was asking would it speed up key action, by having the tone hole pads lowered by a sax repair guy? The reply was if you lower the tone hole pads, then you cant bend pitches down on the sax, while using other sax keys to bend the note down, instead of bending a note down using your embouchure.
a sax repair guy, could speed up key action by bending springs on the sax instead.
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