Klarinet Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2000/03

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Ligatures in general
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:54:19 -0500

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:14:23 -0500, alevin@-----.net said:

> When I was in school, I attended a master class at which the lecturer
> had a variety of mouthpieces which had been abused - chipped tips and
> rails, cracks, warps and distortion from tight ligatures. I remember
> that the distortion occured in hard rubber mouthpieces - not crystal
> or plastic. It became very easy to see with gauges. The lesson
> caused me to switch to a Bonade ligature, then to a nylon ligature,
> and, finally, to string.
>
> Allen

So, I'm wrong, then. But I just asked Jon Steward at Howarths, and he
says that you very rarely see this on modern mouthpieces. It used to
happen, he says, on Boosey and Hawkes 1010 mouthpieces that had narrow
walls and large bores, and the order of magnitude was between 0.1 and
0.2mm. Modern mouthpieces have thicker walls, and he doesn't remember
having seen the effect on a Vandoren, say.

Anybody any direct evidence in the course of their work with
mouthpieces? There's a silence from the professionals....

Tony
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