Klarinet Archive - Posting 000204.txt from 2005/08

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ah, ligatures....Gold vs. Silver
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:31:48 -0400

Somewhere around 1980 Dr. William C. Willett, clarinetist, president
of NACWPI (National Association of College Wind and Percussion
Instructors) did a study where he compared a number of ligatures of
the day (including standard, Bonade, Bay, Kaspar, etc). As I recall,
results were done in a lab setting and he had done some type of
graphs doing a
harmonic analysis of the overtones present in each. He did a
presentation of this at an Eastern division MENC conference. I don't
know the details of the study (controls, etc) or if his results were
published anywhere. (NACWPI or education journal, Clarinet
publications, etc).

Ed

On Aug 11, 2005, at 9:58 PM, Adam Michlin wrote:

> Common sense tells us that the difference between a standard Rovner
> ligature and a Bonade inverted ligature is more likely to cause a
> measurable, observable, repeatable difference. Sure, no one (to my
> knowledge) has done the research.......,

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