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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2010-04-20 00:22
The plateau clarinet has the holes covered over. This is a good clarinet for children with tiny fingers, but I especially like mine for playing outdoors. I got mine used for $300. These clarinets are now on the market again by Noblet and are selling for $1,500. They had been off the market for some years. When my father was very ill, he played the plateau as his hands shook. Just posting this for whomever might be interested in such a clarinet.
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Author: Rusty
Date: 2010-04-20 09:41
Hi Carol, well I have 3 clarinets,a Resitone Vito, a new YamahaCSG, and my lovely Vito plateau.
No not to my knowledge they have always been available from Vito. Most of the concerts I play in, trios and solos I use the plateau.
So many folks on the BBoard have said "give it away and just practice harder to get all the holes covered." But why make it so hard when you can play so much faster and better with the plateau? Don`t people want to progress and advance with instruments? It`s like still using wooden pegs on my vioiln and cello that pop out in cold weather. But I guess it is tradition and being concervative.
I`ve been playing clarinets for 8 yrs. and the plateau for 5. I must have seen a dozen people of all ages give up because the std. clarinet is a hard so and so to learn. The answer to me is simple.
Cheers.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2010-04-20 17:27
Plateau clarinets are more complex, consequently more expensive to make and harder to keep in adjustment. They also tend to play stuffier unless the maker (or repairman) makes a concerted effort to get the pads to lift high enough for proper venting (a more involved effort with plateau instruments). So there are downsides.
Post Edited (2010-04-20 19:02)
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Author: Ursa
Date: 2010-04-20 19:41
I've played bass clarinet (with plateau keys) and have noted that certain fingerings just don't work, especially in the altissimo register. Is this the case with a plateau-key soprano clarinet?
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2010-04-21 15:53
Plateau clarinets are interesting to know about and consider.
I had a very promising alto sax student who failed to learn to double on clarinet because she played it like a piano --flailing fingers that didn't cover the tone holes. If I'd been on the ball, I'd have had her trade her Vito for a plateau model.
A playing colleague had a stroke that harmed his finger precision so that he couldn't reliably cover the tone holes. He refused to "compromise" his playing by using a plateau clarinet and passed his clarinet solos to another member of the band.
They also make that glissando in Rhapsody in Blue more difficult to execute.
Bob Phillips
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