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Re: Sticks-n-Stones & Chasing away Pros

Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2017-08-10 19:46

Indeed there is not $$$$'s to disuade a player to play from one thing to another.

It's literally always "I like to play this, and then the Company goes after me for it as an Artist for them" which means that they can legally use my name to say that I play it, or have an ad that I am quoted in as describing what I like about it.

Literally zero players are getting rich, being able to even afford an Apartment from any endorsers payments.

The Silverstein 300 Centigrade below Zero treatment of the Ligature Kevlar that is used can be to some considered "hocus" and no way it could possibly do anything whatsoever, yet I know of another company (that is completely non related in the product line) who DOES use that technology, but due to intellectual law reasons will not publically admit that it uses the cryo technology.

So that other company is treating a product with a "hocus" technology, but not at all making that public - that does that mean?? That the Company believes that it makes a difference.

I feel a difference between all of the Ligatures that I own. Each one plays slightly different, from enhancing harmonics, to deadening them, to easing articulation, to not affecting much at all.

Does any of that make you go from 140 to 160 in Articulation? Nope, but it can help you get there. When I compared the Solid Gold Maestro to the Rose Gold (which there was about a $400 cost difference between the 2, and yes, it was $$$'s), I couldn't possibly justify that spending the $$"s on it was that much better as to warrant it, but it was something nice that did help.

When I tried the BG Gold plating over Silver compared to the Gold plated over Copper, I could tell the difference - it was obvious to me, but I did NOT know that there was a difference as was not told there was. Both were Gold colored, but one played better than the other one. This was in my studio at home, so not in a crowded hall attempting to get a tone in around the drone in the depths of an ICA Conference Clarinet Hell.

But no product makes you play more musically, nor better in tune that listening with a good ear, and actually making the phrases sing.

What I don't need is someone nitpicking my posting, nor deeply analyzing a posting of mine, as what I write is quickly written, and off of the cuff.

If something I write doesn't make sense, please ask again, but don't bust on me as I'm doing the best that I can with what I've got