Klarinet Archive - Posting 000057.txt from 2000/03

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Ligatures in general
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:54:05 -0500

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:55:02 -0500, dnietham@-----.edu said, in part:

> > 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'll have to experiment with this a bit. I find it hard to imagine
> that rather noticeable changes in response and pitch would not be the
> result. But, I'll have to fool with it for myself before I comment
> any more.

Well, I think I made a misleading move in my post here. What I'd
intended to say was that I imagined that the sorts of physical changes
made by ligature 'overtightening', if indeed there are any, would be
very small.

Added to that, even rather gross changes have less effect on playing
than I would have imagined, as evidenced by sticking stuff up the
mouthpiece. (That's not to say that those *sorts* of changes aren't
what gives different mouthpieces their different characters.)

So the effect of 'overtightening' on actual playing would be small for
two reasons: one, that the physical effect is small, and the other that
even larger physical effects make less difference than you'd think.

Tony
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