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Author: ito
Date: 2010-03-10 08:04
Any one care to share the price and information and experiences you have on this ligature?thanks
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2010-03-10 09:23
I tried one. It's too heavy creating a dead sound. The lighter the ligiture the better the reed responds. Save your money.
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-03-10 09:32
Well, if you're looking for the aesthetic of the gold plate itself, it's a decent ligature, but it's a pretty standard inverted. I'm not sure that I agree that it is heavy. Mine is pretty thin and light weight, but that doesn't really give it any special qualities for me. If you need "gold" and want one that works well (and don't mind the expense), you could try the gold inverted Ishimora (available through a sax store in New York - Roberto's ?). It's close to $100, but it has Bonade style rails for the reed to sit on.
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2010-03-10 09:48
I have one and don't use it. It's definitely not heavy comapred with most ligatures. It's a standard inverted ligature but seems much more flimsy than any other I've seen. Mine tore after a short while and I only used it on my tester mouthpiece which I tightened a lot less often than the ligature I use for playing. No ligature I've ever used even for many years ever broke or tore except this one. It looks like very thin and weak metal and it has a poor design. The gold colour is just another disadvantage, an uglier colour than silver 
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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2010-03-10 12:09
I have students who use the Bay ligature and I'm not impressed with it. I don't hate it, but I don't see what the hype is all about...other than the name.
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Author: ito
Date: 2010-03-10 13:44
So this is not a good ligature to try out actually? as i need to order the ligature in order to try and there is so many ligature out there to try out..and i have heard great talk about this ligature
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2010-03-10 14:11
Hmmmmm........
If it's just a good ligature that you are looking for, firstly DON'T pass up the Rovner Light. This ligature is inexpensive, inverted, and works like a charm pretty much in any circustance. For about $20, you'll have a great ligature from which you will only experience "the law of diminishing returns." That is, you will pay substantially more for lesser improvements.
Of course I say this as one who plays a Vandoren Leather ligature a lot (with the metal plate that mimics the Bonade ligature).
I can only recommend the Bay if you have gold plated keys and are looking for a visual match. There are virtually no standout playing characteristics to the Bay (in either gold or silver.............sorry).
...................Paul Aviles
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Author: salzo
Date: 2010-03-10 14:33
If its about gold, you can always gold plate a ligature. I have a Bonade that I had gold plated-its my least favorite Bonade ligature, but I doubt the gold plating has anything to do with that. It was not a good ligature before being gold plated and it isnt good after being gold palted
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Author: William
Date: 2010-03-10 17:05
Charlies ligatures are lightweight, made from quite thin metal and tend to crack at the inscription markings if over tightened. I have both silver and gold models which play the same. They are good ligs--despite being fragile--but I prefer a to use a Vandy Optimum, parallel rail insert, simply because it is durable and gives me the "Bonade" sound.
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Author: NBeaty
Date: 2010-03-10 17:13
These ligatures are nothing special. The idea that they are "heavy" is laughable. There are very few ligatures which are lighter. In fact, that's their defining quality! THey allow the reed to vibrate very freely.
They are a bit too fragile and don't have a good enough hold on the reed for my taste. The Kaspar ligatures are a slightly heavier version of this ligature (or the bay is a lighter version of the Kaspar?). I prefer the Kaspar.
Gold plated inverted bonade is one of the best ligatures I've ever used, but I can't seem to find a place that is selling them already gold plated (my current one has lost almost all its plating over the years).
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Author: Bubalooy
Date: 2010-03-10 17:36
I use a gold colored shoe lace, the kind that come standard on many hiking boots, etc. and find that it plays as well as any ligature I've tried accept for perhaps my old gold Harrison, which broke as Harrisons were prone to do. Believe it or not, I've tried several shoe laces as well as some strings that were designed 'to be' ligatures and my gold one from Timberland seems to work best. Also, I think it cost less than the "cheap" Rovner mentioned earlier and , for me, plays better.
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