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Converting a non-Plateau Clarinet

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2023-04-22 21:07

I recently watched an interesting Youtube video from Michael Lowenstern on the Uebel Plateau Clarinet.

https://youtu.be/HDE_iUOPF8c

For those of you just "coming up to speed" this is a clarinet whose tone holes are more like those of a saxophone, in that there is no directly placement of the pad of a finger on an open hole of the instrument. Rather you press a key, on whose other side lies a pad which covers the hole for you.

Michael went into discussing how the design of this instrument was one where the developer didn't merely replaced open tone holes with pads, as the proximity of the pads to the holes on this instrument were close enough that if you approached a non-plateau clarinet's tone holes with the pad of finger at similar distance it would likely stifle the note played. He seemed to think there there might have been some undercutting of tone holes on the plateau instrument to allow the clarinet's pads such close proximity to the holes, while not stifling the sound.

This led me to wonder if anyone as converted a non-plateau clarinet to a plateau one, say for an aging player, what that involved, and whether is was successful.

TIA

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