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 Re: Clamp that sucker down!
Author: WhitePlainsDave 
Date:   2015-02-27 22:04

Ken Shaw wrote:

> Diving boards are always clamped down firmly at the back end.
> The adjustment mechanism makes the flexing area shorter or
> longer. This has nothing to do with how a clarinet ligature
> works. Sorry 'bout that.
>


You know not of what you speak sir. There may be many differences beyond those I cited as to why diving boards and reeds don't make the best of analogies, but citing that diving boards are always clamped down firmly at the back end is a justification for why they are analogous to reeds, not why they aren't.

The adjustment mechanism: let's assume we're working with a diving board that has none, as many don't. I only brought that up to be fair and acknowledge that a single reed can't elongate.

Of course you're free to have your opinions, but you'd be disagreeing with Tom Ridenour too, who uses similar analogy in the explanation of his ATG system of adjusting reeds. To be fair, Tom may use the term "spring form," if memory serves me correctly, as opposed to a diving board : a type of spring board or form..."Toe mato" "toe mahto" if you ask me.

> I was told 50 years ago that tightening the ligature all the way snug and
> then backing the screws(s) off 1/4 turn gives the best results. That's worked
> for me ever since.

Me too, only it was 40 years ago. The question though was whether you've gleaned anything [in your additional decade of learning] that helps you to explain why that's the case.

Seriously, the problem may in part be mine. I've got to start getting those questions up near the top of the posts, not the bottom.

"And when I say "why," I am suggesting more than anecdotal evidence of what you have found to yield maximum playability, but maybe some science to back such feelings up."



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