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LIgature problems...keep slipping up!!!

Author: three4rd
Date: 2006-11-13 15:03

Hi:
I'm going absolutely crazy with this problem. I got a new R13 Buffet for my daughter last year, along with a VanDoren M13 (I think) mouthpiece. My problem is that we have tried many different Bonade inverted ligatures for her clarinet. None of them work....they all slip up when trying to tighten them. I see from reading posts that others here have concerns about the apparent lack of quality control with these ligatures.
I've had the store send many different ones. They don't work on my B45 VanDoren mouthpiece either. Recently they sent me a BG leather ligature(inverted with the one screw..I think the Revelation line). This seemed too big and, while it stayed on, the reed was loose.
Just last week they sent a Van Doren ligature (Masters line) which is a real piece of crap. It just slips it's way up on the mouthpiece!! I've been playing and teaching for close to 30 years and have NEVER encountered such problems. What's going on?? The store is basically out of ideas. Right now I have my daughter using my old Bonade ligature which works so easily.
I'm stuck trying to get the Van Doren ligature to work today....completely frustrating...must have had it on and off 20 times already today.

Any suggestions?? I know that the brand new Bonade ligatures the store has been sending me don't even LOOK right - sort of mishapen and the tracks not parallel, etc. The ligature that came with her Buffet is pretty much junk too...that's how the whole problem started.....

Is anyone in France making a decent ligature these days????

Thanks -sorry for venting.....

three4rd

Post Edited (2006-11-13 15:06)

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