Klarinet Archive - Posting 000031.txt from 2000/02

From: fsheim@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 1 Feb 2000 09:15:00 -0000 Issue
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 15:57:12 -0500

I've been using the shoestring since I bought the Pino book in the early
'80's and love it. And it DOES stay put when changing to the A! Only
problem is that there is no cap for it!

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

At 01:15 PM 2/1/00 EST, you wrote:
>I've been seeing a lot about ligatures here lately, but have not yet heard
of
>anyone doing what I am. After reading David Pino's book, "The Clarinet and
>Clarinet Playing" (Dover 1998, original copyright 1980) which I got from
B&N
>for under $10.00 +S&H, I decided it would be fun to try out the
"shoestring".
> I thought, if nothing else it would be a conversation piece.
>
>I liked it so well I have used nothing else since. For $1.69 or so you get
>two of them. They don't scratch the mouthpiece, they don't pinch the reed,
>and with a little practice you can get one on about as quickly as an
ordinary
>ligature. Pino says a lot of other good things about them, which I cannot
>corroborate, but it certainly has not hurt my playing any. One thing
though,
>it won't stay in place if you remove the mouthpiece, which, of course would
>not work for a quick change to the A in a concert. Anyway for what it's
>worth, that's my experience.
>
>Bill
>retired and regaining embouchure
>
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