King Saxophone Tone Holes

The first photo shows two tone holes before they are cleaned. As you can see there are many small places that are not smooth. These small dings in the tone hole need to be fixed before starting to put new pads in the saxophone so the pads will seat better.

This next photo shows the same tone holes after they have been smooth out so the pads will seat better.. I do not use tone hole files and/or the circular tone hole files as I think they tend to remove too much metal from the tone hole. I use a very fine sand paper and go around the tone hole in a circle to smooth them out. This takes very little metal off the tone hole.

King Saxophone Tone Holes