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Ligatures - centered pressure

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2021-08-24 21:39

I've been looking recently for a non-astronomically-priced ligature that does the following:
(a) has a pressure plate that tightens against the center of the reed, and
(b) is designed not to touch the edges or any other part of the reed.

What I have in mind would mimic the way I hold a reed on the mouthpiece with my thumb when first play-testing a new reed or one I've just adjusted in some way. My thumb presses against the center of the bark. Reeds nearly always sound better that way than when I've assembled the mouthpiece with any of the ligatures I've tried, which all in one way or another put pressure against a length of the reed that's much longer that my thumb's coverage area.

The principal would be to get as close as possible to a single point of contact instead of having rails or separate points of a ligature define the plane of the entire reed. It seems as though if greater freedom of motion for the reed is helpful in any way, the least restrictive contact should maximize the result.

I wonder if there's something already available commercially instead of my having to try to jury-rig something to test the idea.

Karl

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