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Gold plated ligs

Author: HTW
Date: 2000-04-24 02:42

I've heard lots about gold plating on ligatures. I recently won a gold plated BG soloist on ebay, although I haven't received it yet. What does the gold plating do to the sound?

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RE: Gold plated ligs

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-04-24 02:54

HTW wrote:
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I've heard lots about gold plating on ligatures. I recently won a gold plated BG soloist on ebay, although I haven't received it yet. What does the gold plating do to the sound?
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Nothing that I've noticed (my teacher has a gold & silver plated Harrison & I can't tell the difference between the two) but the gold sure looks nice.

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RE: Gold plated ligs

Author: Eoin McAuley
Date: 2000-04-24 23:10

I tried out a few different BG ligatures. The one I normally use is the BG Revelation, which is leather. The silver BG sounded much the same; the gold one sounded as good but much louder. This may have had nothing to do with the gold plating. I can't believe myself that gold can sound any better than silver. It seems too much of a coincidence that the more expensive the metal, the better it sounds.

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