Klarinet Archive - Posting 001075.txt from 2000/02

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Psst... where did you get your string?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:35:33 -0500

Psst… where did you get your string?

I used to use string instead of commercially available ligatures.
I even had a ridge cut into the mouthpiece just below the
window so that the string would stay in place.
Although I thought the string was great, I eventually discarded it
because of difficulties changing clarinets.

The first piece of string, which I still have, I had gotten from
Bellison.
For fun, tonight I took out the Bellison string and tried it. It does
make for a better sound. At least, that's my way of hearing it.

I remember going to fishing tackle shops to try to find similar string.
Sometimes I came close.

By the way, can you imagine what e-mail messages at the beginning of the
18th century would be like?

" I use this and this string."

"No, mine is better. It gives me the harmonics I want."

And so on...

Avrahm Galper
CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
EINE KLEINE KLEZMER MUSIK
http://www.avrahm-galper.sneezy.org

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