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Re: Vandoren Master Optimum

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-08-27 13:16

I can speak for the M/O. I have four of them, two black and two gold (one pair in Masters and one standard). The shape of the Masters mouthpiece is unusually narrow towards the tip, therefore a metal ligature would need to have less material toward the top to fit properly. So the Masters version of the M/O is correspondingly smaller and it fits properly (exerting a more even pressure from top to bottom of the reed).

I have an Optimum ligature that is about 10 years old and it does not work AT ALL on the Masters shaped mouthpieces.

But if you use any fabric or "formable" sort of ligature, there should be no problem adapting it to the Masters as one would expect.

..............Paul Aviles

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