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Vent Vine™ - Custom Fit

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Key Leaves Vent Vine™ prevents sticking palm keys and extends pad life and protects again tone hole metal damage by leaving keys open to dry clean.

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Close up view of Key Leaves Vent Vine™ on the saxophone palm keys. It stops sticky sax keys and helps keeps the saxophone cleaner.

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Vent Vine™ - Custom Fit

Sale price: $45.00 Regular price: $50.0010% off

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Custom fit details

IMPORTANT: Your saxophone needs pad resonators or rivets from high D up to work with this product.

SAX CASE NOTICE: Flexible wall “gig bag” cases are not compatible with this product.

THIS PRO CARE PRODUCT is crafted to fit the unique tone hole openings of your alto or tenor sax. You may need to sand adjust the product to fit your pad resonators (sanding board included). Vent Vine™ extends pad life but will not resurrect dead pads. Replace torn, moldy or rotten pads for best results.

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - SMALL PARTS - NOT FOR SMALL CHILDREN UNDER 3 YRS. Misuse of this product may cause damage or injury. Buyer assumes all risk of use.

Does your sax have HIGH F# key?

Example: Alto / Selmer / S80III

The serial number is usually stamped below the thumb rest.

Vent Vine™ - Custom Fit

Sale price: $45.00 Regular price: $50.00 Save 10%

🏆 "Outstanding Product Award" - Saxophonist Magazine

Product details

Description

Saxophonist David Halliday recommends using a Vent Vine and Key Leaves props to prevent sticky saxophone pads and key malfunction. He is quoted in this image saying: "Using my Vent Vine and Key Leaves between every show. They're a game changer, totally cured the sticky pads."Prevent pad rot and keep your saxophone cleaner with Key Leaves Vent Vine™

Look at your saxophone and notice how all pads above the left hand are closed after you play. That traps wet bacteria against the pads and tone holes to rot. That nastiness in the sax also drips down onto the left hand keys making them sticky.

  • Totally prevent palm key sticking from High D and up
  • Reduce rot and metal corrosion on your sax tone holes
  • Premium daily care or long-term storage
  • Safe on all finishes, Soft-touch Nylon
  • Designed & Made in U.S.A by saxophonists
  • Add the GapCap™ for increased air flow from the top and sides

Our patented Vent Vine technology safely open the pads from Palm High D and up so they air dry clean and pad leather stays soft and healthy.

The Vent Vine™ is a favorite care tool of classical saxophone master Timothy McAllister, studio pro David Halliday, L.A. Philharmonic saxophonist Chika Inoue, saxophone repair specialist Brennan Lagan, and many more. Discover the professional players, teachers and repair techs who recommend this product at KeyLeaves.com/Artists

Common Questions

How much time does it take to use? 
It only takes 20-30 seconds to use a Key Leaves Vent Vine™ after you do it a few times. It’s like learning to swab a sax for the first time. Dot it every day and it adds years to the life of you saxophone.

Can Vent Vine™ be used with my own end plug or end cap? 
Yes. The Vent Vine™ has a loop that can tighten around any sax end cap. One of the most popular options is to loop the Vent Vine around the screw of a GapCap to help increase air flow to the sax body and absorb impact shock if your case get's dropped or hit. One of our biggest fans on Instagram, The Sax Spy, uses Vent Vine with his hand-made wooden sax plugs.

Soprano sax palm keys? 
We looked carefully at those high soprano keys and didn't feel right making a product for them. Almost every soprano sax case we found presses very tightly against the high palm keys and we felt the risk of damage was greater than the benefit.

To keep the high pads of your soprano sax healthy, swab your sax after playing then open the high pads and blow forcefully across the tone holes a few times. This blows away the dripping moisture so they don't go into the case totally soaked. It's a simple trick that also helps other saxes.

Bari Saxophone Vent Vine?
We do not offer a custom fit Vent Vine for baritone saxophone at this time. Most bari saxophone cases use intense padding and clamp force to hold the bari sax around the top crook. That prevents high pads from being opened safely to dry. We do strongly recommend you use a bari sax swab to keep the bari crook clean and we sell our favorite bari sax cleaner in our shop. 

Artist Reviews
Wade Howles
Every saxophonist and educator needs Key Leaves and a Vent Vine in their cases. I can see and feel a huge difference in my C#, G#, and palm keys since I began using them.
- Wade HowlesSaxophonist, EducatorDirector of Bands at Lakeview Community Schools
Timothy McAllister
Key Leaves are simply a fantastic product and long overdue in our field! I use my set every day and I highly recommend them everywhere I go.”
- Timothy McAllisterSoloistPRISM, University of Michigan, Interlochen Center for the Arts
David Halliday
I love these things! I'm using my Vent Vine and Key Leaves between every show. They're a game changer, totally cured the sticky pads. My sax just doesn't get that stuck key malfunction since I've been using Key Leaves.
- David HallidaySoloist, ComposerWestminster College, University of Utah

Instructions

https://keyleaves.com/pages/instructions-vent-vine

Materials

Durable Molded Plastic

Dimensions

12" long with small plastic parts

Shipping & Returns

Easy Shipping & Returns
If you are not satisfied, simply contact us and we'll do all we can to make it right for you.

International Customers
are responsible for any duties, taxes, tariffs or other costs associated with importing your order. Key Leaves will not communicate with customs offices, governments, or foreign postal services on your behalf. You may prefer to order from a music store near you to minimize import costs.

Satisfaction Guaranteed
We are a family business striving to make great products that serve you well. If you aren't happy with a product simply contact us and we'll do all we can to make it right for you.

Warnings

⚠️ WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD
Small parts—Not for Children under 6 yrs old. Buyer assumes all risk of use of this product.

⚠️ WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov

Learn why we provide this warning at KeyLeaves.com/P65

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