Klarinet Archive - Posting 000202.txt from 2004/08

From: "Steve Hartman" <sdh902@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Ligature preferences
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:57:45 -0400

Karl Krelove wrote:
>Is there a problem with string when you have to make a quick instrument
change...?

I do grease my mouthpiece cork more than I would if I were using a metal ligature. The only time I
had the string begin to come loose during a performance was in the first or second week that I was
using string. I hadn't learned to tie it tight enough. Since then, I think the only time I've
wished I had a ligature was when I accidentally brushed the sleeve of my suit jacket across the reed
while the clarinet was standing on a peg, breaking the tip of the reed, which I continued to play
until there was a suitable pause. Fortunately, there was no clarinet solo during that time.

Steve Hartman

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