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Re: E Flat vs plateau b flat plateau clarinet

Author: Chris P
Date: 2021-05-19 21:22

If your Vito plateaux model is stuffy sounding in comparison to a regular ring key clarinet, then it's most likely due to poor venting, especially in the lower register.

Have ALL the RH main action ventings increased to a maximum of 3mm (the LH ventings will follow suit) and that will clear things up and if the original skin pads are sagging, then have them all replaced with either cork or synthetic pads that remain flat and don't sag into the toneholes.

Another important thing if the regular fingering for bottom space F# (F#4) is stuffy (LH1 only), then have the thumbplate underlever shortened and that will allow it to open far more in relation to the open G vent (the small pad cup underneath the throat A touchpiece) and that will clear up the stuffy F#.

Remember it's F# that issues from the thumb tube and not open G.

Don't skimp on the cost or quality of having this sort of work done even though "it's just a plastic clarinet".

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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