Klarinet Archive - Posting 001063.txt from 1998/05

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:Optimum Ligatures?
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 21:45:01 -0400

>Some people have mentioned the Brancher ligature, which sounds pretty
>nice--but how expensive is it?

Brancher at street price is about $26 WITH tax, and that's in NYC where
everything is taxed from here to hell.

>I have read a little bit about the Vandoren Optimum ligature. It sounds
>really nice with the vertical tightening system and everything. I have
>asked several players whether or not they have ever tried this ligature
>and none have, so if someone has, how is it? I do not believe that the
>Woodwind & Brasswind carries this particular ligature, and looking up
>the price from Vandoren's U.S. retailer, found that it is kind of out of
>my price range for a ligature.

I have this one too (I can see where collecting these things is a curse),
and I like it. There really IS a difference in sound and focus as you
switch the three plates around. It's sort of expensive, but not as pricey
as a Winslow or a metal BG: again, street price without the cap is about
$40. They sell it with the cap, and it's about $50 that way. The current
WW&BW catalogue DOES list them. I bought mine at Sam Ash, and the prices
are comparable.

Ken

"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

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