Pratt Read Pouches
By Rick Pargeter
I am currently in the final stage of a Pratt-Read stack rebuild, and I think I may have made a pretty big mistake. The old pouches were made from one piece of very thin leather stretched over all of the inside valves. My Standard stack (a previous rebuild that works great) had individual pouches instead of this one piece unit, and so I replaced the pouches in this unit with the individual punched style from PPCo.
Have I done a bad thing here? Should I pull these off and replace with the one piece thin style? The repetition when playing seems very sluggish and it takes quite a lot to get the unit to play. The outside valves were also sealed with this very thin leather, and I replaced it with a thicker leather. Could this also be some of the problem? Thanks in advance.
Rick Pargeter
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