Klarinet Archive - Posting 000402.txt from 2005/02

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] The best 'ligature" for a saw...? (was: La Mirada SO Concerts)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:18:58 -0500

Jim wrote:

> performing on saw. It's an off-the-shelf
> Stanley Handyman, not a Strad.

Hmmm... if ligatures make a difference for single reed instruments, then
gloves (or the lack thereof) must make a difference for saws. Will he
be using cloth or leather or cotton gloves? If leather, sheepskin or
lambskin or ....?

<sorry>

> Copland

> Shostakovich, Spohr, Saint-Saens and
> Tchaikovsky.

Do you know yet which compositions?

Thank you,
Ormond

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