Mold, Fungus & Bacteria
Mold, fungus, yeast and bacteria grew inside the High Palm Key tone hole chimneys, and radically less of it with Key Leaves care.
The Key Leaves field test
Do Key Leaves Saxophone Care Products Help Sticky Key Pads?
Great question! To find out, we took two identical brand-new saxophones and played each one for 12 months: 200 hours of playing per sax, never swab cleaned, and eating food while playing. We took notes on how each sax worked. Here's what we found.
- identical new saxophones
- 2
- of playing across all seasons
- 12 Months
- played on each saxophone
- 200 hrs
- Swab cleaning. Yuck!
- Zero
The Side-by-Side Comparison
Watch what happened inside the two saxophone body tubes
What we found
Inside the Saxophones
Sticky Pad Rot
The low Eb key got sticky pad rot: the leather hardens and eventually leaks. Not so with daily Key Leaves care.
Saxophone Body Health
The entire body tube becomes unhealthy. These upside-down necks show how much mold and gunk grew in the sax that didn't use Key Leaves care.
Bell Bow Condition
The sax that didn't use Key Leaves care became stickier and coated in lint and mold.
98% Fewer Stuck Sax Keys
Even without swab cleaning, using Key Leaves care products led to 98% fewer stuck saxophone keys. Results are even better when used as directed with swab cleaning.
- Total Stuck Keys
- 601 vs 12
- Without vs With Key Leaves
- Stuck G# Keys
- 143 vs 3
- Without vs With Key Leaves
- Stuck Low C# Keys
- 83 vs 4
- Without vs With Key Leaves
- Stuck High D-F#
- 247 vs 0
- Without vs With Key Leaves
Time-Lapse Video of Saxophone Pad Rot
We compiled over a year of still images to make the world's first time-lapse video of saxophone leather pad rot.
With results like these, players trust it!
See why pro sax players, repair techs and teachers trust Key Leaves products to keep instruments safe and healthy.
Keep Your Saxophone Playing Like New
Give your saxophone the same care that led to 98% fewer sticky keys in our field test.