Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 2000/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Velcro Ligature
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:30:14 -0500

Tony P.,
But which end do you shorten it from?
This isn't self-evident.
Roger S.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Tony Pay wrote:

> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 13:21:42 GMT
> From: Tony Pay <Tony@-----.uk>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Velcro Ligature
>
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:55:28 EST, SoulClarinetAdam@-----.com said:
>
> > In a message dated 2/2/2000 12:49:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > Tony@-----.uk writes:
> >
> > > > You realize of course you are embarking on a trip into black magic
> > > > when you suggest the ligature does nothing more than hold the reed
> > > > on the mouthpiece. I wholly agree with you. Although I'm a
> > > > mediocre clarinet player, I'm reasonably good at physics and I
> > > > defy anyone to show me critical evidence that the ligature does
> > > > anything but clamp the reed.
> >
> > I would comment on that, to tell you that your wrong, but i can't
> > because i don't have enough information to support my evedince. But i
> > do know that the lig is not there JUST to hold the red it is there to
> > allow the vibration go through the reed, from tip to the end of the
> > reed, that is what makes a lig a lig, or well something like that.
> > Adam
> > HAPPY playin'!!!!
>
> You misattribute the quote to me, as I indicate by using the more
> conventional form of quoting in the above, but never mind.
>
> I just wanted to add to what you say that it's interesting to try the
> effect of shortening a conventional reed by a centimetre or so, bringing
> it to the length of the reeds used on classical clarinets.
>
> As in the case of using a different ligature, this considerably affects
> the sound, so you might think that period instrument players would
> automatically shorten all reeds.
>
> But again, as in the case of ligatures, the main difference is just to
> affect your choice of reeds. And since it's a pain to shorten all
> reeds, I just shorten the ones that feel to me as though they might
> benefit, just as I might try a different ligature on a reed that I felt
> had possibilities, but needed to be slightly more or less free.
>
> Tony
> HAPPY rereadin'!!!!
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