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Re: Ligatures - centered pressure

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-08-25 00:54

Though not personally much of a ligature guy, I think the search Karl is well founded.

There is just something magical (and I am willing to consider it being some placebo effect) of playing a reed with solely the right thumb holding it in place, while presumably testing it before it being attached to a mouthpiece by a conventional ligature.

To the extent that a ligature mimics that "thumb test" I'd be interested if it really does improve play.

Then again, the Francois Louis ligature mentioned seems to come pretty darn close to emulating that grip, and it's not like I've heard it receiving particularly "a cut above the rest" reviews--which of course is in no way meant to disparage the ligature either.

I suspect as "meeting the basic tests of a ligature" goes that the product line, at the very least (I have not tried) exceeds such metrics.

Post Edited (2021-08-25 00:55)

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