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Re: Ratterree ligature

Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2005-01-05 13:12

Hi,

The ligature really looks like it would work very well. I'll bet there are not very many of these around and it could be worth quite a bit to a collector.

One email I got though from Bernie Portnoy though said his ligature was just too expensive to produce. He said "use a Bonade, it is just the same." Well, it really isn't just the same and I think the Portnoy is better (but then I have been playing a Portnoy BP02 for a very long time).

Maybe the Ratterree ligature, although simple in design, might have been too expensive to produce. My cousin is a retired professor from Tufts who designed the Reach Toothbrush and the Goodnews Razor. He said that for a product to be marketable, it must cost no more than 9 times the manufacturing costs. If more than that, the price would be too high.

HRL

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