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Re: what is your favourite ligature?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2016-02-02 11:20

Hi Sarah - For a long time probably through the 1970's or close to it the Bonade ligature seemed to be the main choice. Towards the late 1970's plastic and cloth came around. Well now you kind of have every possible design there is on the market! At the NAMM Convention I guess it was 2 plus weeks ago now, I saw a lot of crazy ligatures to innovative ones. A person I know named Oleg gave me one of his to try, all metal. You can google him. I really like the sax ligatures a lot.

When you wrap metal to a mouthpiece the mouthpiece will vibrate more. When you add other materials it can deaden the vibrations, sometimes in a good way, which darkens the sound.

I'm using a Bonade, but I modified it by adding hard plastic pieces where the reed and the ligature touch each other. I also gutted a lot of the metal on the ligature to make it as light in weight as possible. This allows the mouthpiece to vibrate freely for me, because I'm not into cutting off or restricting the vibrations of the reeds and the mouthpiece.

Needless to say you will get tons of assorted answers here. I play with a double lip so this feels best for me, but I'm always open to trying new things like the Oleg ligature. That was amazing how much the volume increased on the saxes. I don't play double lip on the saxes, but I'm pretty good on them. I started the clarinet in the 4th grade and the sax in the 5th grade, so I play both very well.

Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces

Yamaha Artist 2015

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