Klarinet Archive - Posting 000069.txt from 1997/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: BIG Vibrations
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:17:24 -0400

On Fri, 2 May 1997, Gary Hopkins wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 07:42:59 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Gary Hopkins <ghopkins@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: BIG Vibrations
>
> I've been playing clarinet, off and on, since 1963. I've used just about
> every ligature that's been available...including string while I was a
> college student (I was REALLY weird then). The ligature I keep going back
> to is the same Luyben white plastic that I have had since 1968. However,
> you should all keep your eyes peeled for a metal ligature that Boosey and
> Hawkes put with their clarinets back in the 50's and 60's. It is rather
> heavy guage metal and has the letters "BH" cut out on the top. It is not
> high-tech in the least, but it responds well and sounds really good. It may
> be nothing more than the thickness of the metal and the way it is cut out
> that makes it worth trying.
>
> Grumpy
>
>
>
I've had at least two of these, but they didn't seem anything special -
actually, I probably hadn't had anything to compare them with, so that's
a
bit unfair. They were just as easy to wreck by inadvertent bending as
most metal ligatures, though.
Roger Shilcock