Uebel Superior Plateau Bb Clarinet - Grenadilla/Mopane Material:Mopane with silver keys

Uebel Superior Plateau Bb Clarinet - Grenadilla/Mopane Material:Mopane with silver keysThe Uebel Superior Plateau clarinet is a rare animal: it's a Bb clarinet with closed keys. Why closed keys? Why not? Never considered a closed hole clarinet? You're not aloneabout 99. 98% of clarinet players play "regular" open hole clarinets, but think about it this way: if you have 1) little or skinny fingers, 2) an ailment that makes it difficult to feel whether your fingers are covering the holes (like peripheral neuropathy), 3) are a sax player

this isn't it (if you want a big helping of French "PING

Their idea was to make a ligature into a "resonator ring" (like the ones CARBEC uses on their barrels) that was also stable enough that it didn't slip off when removing the mouthpiece—like in an orchestra setting where there are quick changes

I can understand why

the Firebird and Polaris shared the same bore

The punishment: a shiny new tariff that adds about $700 per instrument

you're all set

A: About 1 cm taller and maybe 1-2 cm wider

so I get the "full experience" and post those recordings below shortly

" The answer is complicated

keep it—but if you don't

And there are fewer than 25 Selmer Privilege black chrome bass clarinets in the world

and they're inexpensive