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I know of the unfortunate adventure and experiments of Selmer with this idea, but I was wondering if anyone had recently realized that the only reason why this pioneering project failed was because of lack of right materials at the time it was invented, so the keys were attached to metal discs which had nothing to seal the tonehole in the manner of a pad because the seal was entrusted to a leather ring on the tonehole itself. The leather ring was apparently the culprit and went easily out of allinement or dried out, therefore, the thing didn't work...not a s a sax, at most worked as a percussive instrument....but that was then in the WW II years. Now with modern technology it would be possible to use something different than leather ........like a silicon plastic ring or a neoprene (toptone) edge for the tonehole and toptone (again) thought of something similar but different on their top line titanium saxophone keys which are reminiscent of the keys of the padless selmer.