Author: clarnibass
Date: 2023-04-24 14:36
>> I wonder if just putting some Sugru on top of each ring and making it conform to the hole would work well enough. <<
First there are the issues jdbassplayer explained, which would require a very significant modification to the hinges.
Second, look at the rings interacting with the chimneys. Whether you use Sugru or something else, you would need to build it over the ring and be thick enough to support itself and your constant finger pressure and "hammering" it against the tone hole. This would raise the ring key by quite a bit.
Same for adding a pad key to the ring, with the additional issue of itis being buried and hard to adjust. A material like Sugru is a little too hard and non-adjustable, and because the force comes at an angle from the side, it is very likely to not seal that well once it dried, and combined with the firmness it's a problem.
To overcome this by not having the rings lower that much, they are too angled to the chimneys, and aligning them would move them farther back, causing yet more potential issues.
In reality the chimneys really need to be cut into the key style tone holes to modify a regular clarinet to plateau.
>> It is curious to me that you are rebuilding what was originally sold as a plateau clarinet, to presumably a working plateau clarinet, rather than modifying a clarinet of non-plateau origins into a plateau one. <<
For all the reasons mentioned in the thread, modifying a clarinet to plateau is just much more work, that few people are interested in doing this. It depends on what part and how much of the clarinet you want/need to make plateau, how much you are you willing to invest and maybe how long you can be without the clarinet.
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