Klarinet Archive - Posting 001099.txt from 1998/05

From: "Carl Schexnayder" <carlsche@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:Optimum Ligatures?
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:30:51 -0400

Hi Ken,

Could you post a phone number or web address for Sam Ash?

Carl Schexnayder
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From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Date: Monday, May 18, 1998 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re:Optimum Ligatures?

>>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@-----.net
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649
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