Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-02-01 06:37
Paul said:
"I don't mean to be a noodge (no, really - I only want to be accurate), but we have talked about the Silverstein before. It behaves just like a metal ligature NOT a string ligature. I would NEVER put it in the string category for sound or how it behaves (it does NOT stretch) and I don't think you would either if you ever used one."
Dave said:
"Several people on the board whose opinions I respect, talk of the Silverstein, which most would consider to be in the family of string based ligatures, to otherwise play like a metal one: good, bad or indifferent."
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If accuracy in reporting is your concern, and you get my full support if it is, I think no reasonable person left my thread thinking the Silverstein was anything more than a string ligature by visual classification, as it does use cord, but in the family of metal ligatures in terms of play, in large part due to the resistant to expansion (just like metal) cord I originally sited, and you repeated (not clarified).
I simply and humbly don't understand what you think I left out, that you thought worthy of inclusion or clarrification on this piece of hardware as it related to the subject at hand. Restated, I'm at a loss to find what about your writing that wasn't a rehash of mine, except maybe my failure to classify the ligature enough to your liking by how people think it plays.
Maybe you feel strongly about categorizing a ligature by how it plays, over how it looks. I can respect that. Its a feeling (and feelings can differ) deserving of inclusion in the product's attributes, and was, as sure as is the fact (not feeling) that its undeniably composed of cord/string, and can reasonably and concurrently also be labelled under that attribute as well, even if everyone could agree on its metal ligature like playability.
Post Edited (2015-02-01 06:40)
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