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Re: Think your ligature matters?

Author: fskelley  Date:   2014-04-23 09:05 I had a rather odd experience with ligatures, while I was fighting trying to make a sustainable Legere playing scheme (where I would have a constant supply of good playing reeds, that I would replace or renew- how?- on a predictable schedule). I never got there, and abandoned Legere (in fairness root cause may well have been something in my playing that I may or may not have corrected since then). Anyway, I started with a Rovner ligature per Tom's videos, and also drifted among the other ligatures that came with my various used clarinets. An old silver Buffet Crampon France was a frequent winner. A Leblanc ligature that I think was original (along with the mouthpiece) with my 1950's Dynamic 2, played well on occasion. I worked with Vandoren Optimum (lots of experimenting with different inserts, extras to hold the slippery Legeres etc etc), whatever the Vandoren string model is (hard to get), many iterations of my own string, and also the Bois which is basically the o-ring idea. The reason I kept experimenting was that- it seemed that every change I made, at least temporarily felt like an improvement. But ultimately ligatures were not the solution to my issues. And I learned the hard way to be ultra skeptical about any change that seems like a winner. It's made me afraid to try anything in a store or at a show- I have to live with it a while to really know. So now that I'm semi-settled on Vandoren blue reeds (wouldn't it be funny if they were really blue?), balanced by ATG (still hoping for something more playable out of the box), with some beeswax on the back - I'm back (for at least past 6-12 months) to a basic Rovner ligature. Every now and then I swap with that old Crampon silver just to see if it changes anything, and it doesn't. Bottom line for me was that the more control I have on everything else, the less the ligature matters, within limits. At least that's what I think today. Stan in Orlando EWI 4000S with modifications Post Edited (2014-04-23 09:12)

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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