Klarinet Archive - Posting 001185.txt from 2000/02

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Ligatures in general
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:14:38 -0500

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:09:21 -0500, dnietham@-----.edu said:

> You want to be careful not to consistently and repeatedly overtighten a
> ligature, because my understanding is that overtightening the ligature
> will result in a warping of the mouthpiece bore.

Excuse me, David, because I have great respect for your contributions.

I really don't believe this. If you experiment by putting cylinders of
cardboard inside your mouthpieces, you get to understand the sorts of
changes that such gross alterations make. That is, they are rather
surprisingly small.

I doubt that the sorts of changes that an 'overtightened' (what does
this really mean?) ligature might make, on an ebonite mouthpiece, are of
anything like that order of magnitude.

Tony
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