Klarinet Archive - Posting 000385.txt from 1998/03

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Shopping for a new Ligature
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:44:08 -0500

At 11:13 PM 3/5/98 EST, you wrote:
>hi, everyone,
>
> I am shopping for a new ligature. I saw a few ads for the Vandoren
>Optimum (spelling?). I currently have a B&G Revelation. I haven't tried any
>ligatures yet. I am looking for a preferably fabric ligature, but would
take a
>metal one, if it's really good. Any suggestions??? I think the Rovners are
>pretty good too, and they are low in price.
>
> ~~Patrick Kwan

This from a recent returnee to playing who only discovered that there is
more than one kind of ligature:-)--

I bought the Optima, and the other day the Rovner Eddie Daniels. The
Daniels is some sort of plasticized fabric, bulky, but it makes a
noticeable difference.

Ken Wolman

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649