Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2007/04

From: Glenn Kantor <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cryogenic ligatures
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:12:10 -0400

Now THAT'S more like it. :-)

See how valuable the klarinet mailing list is?

It's postings like that which make me wait with baited breath for each new
email to arrive.

Good luck with your new business venture. I am available as a future
artist/endorser.

Glenn Kantor (GBK)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Puwalski" <tski1128@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 4:03 PM
Subject: [kl] Cryogenic ligatures

> Speaking of ligatures, I just had my ancient Bonade ligature,
> cryogenically treated. Thats where they put in in a vat of liquid
> nitrogen and lower the temperature, to like 250 below O. I'm happy to
> report, reeds are no longer any concern at all. Every reed works
> perfectly and every mouthpiece I use the "cool" ligature on plays like
> it's made by Kaspar or made of some special rubber compound! I was
> totally wrong, this ligature IS the sound! Forget anything I've ever said
> about double lip, clarinets, mouthpieces or anything!
>
> I'm thinking of getting a doz. or so of these Bonade ligs and getting the
> whole batch "Cryoed". I'll then sell them for $100 a piece and I'll give
> you a certificate of authenticity! Though I haven't tested it, I bet if
> you were to play the clarinet at -250 degrees, this would be the only
> ligature that would still function perfectly.
>
> Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist
> with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and
> most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence,
> a Masters in Clarinet performance
>
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Glenn Kantor wrote:
>
>>> Maybe we should go back to the discussion of ligatures and the
>>> miraculous ability they seem to poses in changing one's sound.
>>
>>
>> No problem here.... :-)
>>
>> That would be far more amusing than rereading the same recycled,
>> rehashed and unwitty one-liners that every adolescent has already put on
>> their My Space page.
>>
>> Glenn Kantor (GBK)
>>
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