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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 1994/08

From: ELAINE THOMPSON <eethomp@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Winslow ligature falling apart :-(
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 21:02:47 -0400

What do you do for a quick horn change (like the first movement of Brahams
3)? My old Gigliotti was bad enough. I actually send it flying across
the orchestra room once. During a rehearsal, fortunately. A shoestring
sounds impossible.

Elaine Thompson "Two roads diverged in a wood and I,
eethomp@-----.edu I took the one less travelled by,
Johns Hopkins Univ. And it has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost

On Tue, 16 Aug 1994, Timothy Tikker wrote:

> David Pino's book on the clarinet recommends his adaptation of the
> old-style string ligature: a shoe-string, with one of the plastic tipes
> cut off. If you start wraping at the clipped end, it goes around the
> mouthpiece about six times, then the tipped end can be tucked through one
> of the wraps and pulled tight - far easier than the old, skinny string
> and dealing with knots.
>
> I tried it, and after repeated side-by-side comparisons with standard
> ligatures I was sold! Response and tone were significantly improved. Not
> bad for 4/$1.00 - !
>
> Pino also recommended trying elastic cloth. I find that it gives
> essentially identical tonal musical results. If you sew the elastic into
> a loop of correct fit, it just slips on and off.
>
> While I haven't tried any of the high-tech ligatures recently described
> here, the shoestring or elastic work so well that I've had little
> incentive to explore such expensive alternatives!
>