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Re: Think your ligature matters?

Author: ThatPerfectReed  Date:   2014-04-23 07:08 Thanks Stan--you beat me to it--the Ridenour post. Now--I know, there are people out there who are very pationate about their ligatures, and feel they make a whole lot of difference in their play. And their opinions are fine by me, even though I don't agree with them. Clearly, there are lousy ligatures, but I am of the school of thought, like Tom Ridenour, that once a ligature passes a series of basic tests, the difference between them isn't all that much based on method of attachment, materials, etc. Plastic screws that strip, ligatures that are very hard and time consuming to put on (string ligatures not part of this group), ligatures that don't hold a reed well--clearly all junk. There may some feature unrelated to play, but that doesn't compromise play, like an ability for a ligature to go on and off fast, or stay on a mouthpiece as one switches between clarinets in orchestral settings that make it desired, but, as I put my bullet proof jacket on, let me suggest, to a potential scorched earth attack by dissenters, that with all the different designs, that no one ligature does it all, and the marginal difference between many of them may very well not be worth the money. One of the many things that solidified my respect in Mr. Ridenour's only putting out products, in my opinion, that add value, is that he doesn't sell a ligature--perhaps because he hasn't found a way to add value to this device beyond that alreay in the marketplace, not because a ligature with his name on it wouldn't be good, or fail to sell. As it regards things that might be interesting, if not doable or best for play, I am reminded of a battery powered wrench that allowed the user to press a button to open or close the wrench to the size of the bolt it was torquing. I think that would be cool with a ligature, though doubt the small battery(ies) it could hold, even with gears, could tighten the reed to the mouthpiece adequately. Let the dissention begin!

Topics	Author	Date
Think your ligature matters?  new	sdr	2014-04-23 05:31
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	fskelley	2014-04-23 05:50
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-23 07:08
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	J. J.	2014-04-23 07:34
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	J. J.	2014-04-23 07:41
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-23 07:48
Re: Think your ligature matters.?  new	TomS	2014-04-23 08:01
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	J. J.	2014-04-23 08:09
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	fskelley	2014-04-23 09:05
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Tom Ridenour	2014-04-23 09:59
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-04-23 13:15
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Ed	2014-04-23 16:24
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	rtmyth	2014-04-23 17:54
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-23 18:02
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Ed	2014-04-23 20:19
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Ursa	2014-04-23 21:09
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Bob Barnhart	2014-04-23 21:13
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-04-23 21:14
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	fskelley	2014-04-23 23:08
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paula S	2014-04-23 23:19
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paula S	2014-04-23 23:20
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-04-24 01:22
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Ben Shaffer	2014-04-24 02:22
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	clarnibass	2014-04-24 11:58
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Katfish	2014-04-24 17:45
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-24 18:01
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Arnoldstang	2014-04-24 18:07
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	BflatNH	2014-04-24 18:50
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-24 19:08
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Sxplyer81	2014-04-24 21:15
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	fskelley	2014-04-24 19:23
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	John Peacock	2014-04-24 20:14
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-24 20:55
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	BobD	2014-04-24 21:03
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-24 22:10
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Sxplyer81	2014-04-24 22:22
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Mark Charette	2014-04-24 22:46
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-25 00:24
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Johan H Nilsson	2014-04-25 01:10
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-25 01:32
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	fskelley	2014-04-25 02:25
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Mark Charette	2014-04-25 02:49
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	John Peacock	2014-04-25 02:51
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Johan H Nilsson	2014-04-25 03:08
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Tom Ridenour	2014-04-25 04:09
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Chetclarinet	2014-04-26 22:21
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Bruno	2014-04-25 20:10
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Barry Vincent	2014-04-25 23:50
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	earspasm	2014-04-26 01:39
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-04-26 21:03
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	fskelley	2014-04-26 21:52
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	BflatNH	2014-04-28 20:22
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Johan H Nilsson	2014-05-09 04:17
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-05-09 18:32
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	earspasm	2014-06-15 06:28
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-05-09 22:22
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-05-10 01:17
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Johan H Nilsson	2014-05-10 02:54
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-05-10 04:06
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-05-10 06:18
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-05-10 08:18
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Tom Ridenour	2014-05-10 11:03
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-05-10 17:24
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	ThatPerfectReed	2014-05-10 23:41
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Mark Charette	2014-05-10 23:50
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Bruno	2014-06-15 08:31
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	earspasm	2014-06-15 14:14
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-06-15 15:13
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	earspasm	2014-06-16 07:03
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	dibble	2014-06-16 13:29
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-06-16 16:15
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Bruno	2014-06-16 20:24
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-06-16 21:28
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	MarlboroughMan	2014-06-16 22:14
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	afmdoclaw	2014-06-17 01:32
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Klarnetisto	2014-06-17 20:54
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-06-17 23:43
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Klarnetisto	2014-06-18 03:15
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Klarnetisto	2014-06-18 03:27
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	Paul Aviles	2014-06-18 06:35
Re: Think your ligature matters?  new	david_macrae	2014-06-20 08:41

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