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Re: Ligatures - centered pressure

Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2021-08-25 01:49

Karl,

I've always found cotton string to be a pretty close proximity to the thumb.

I used normal cotton garden string for years...wound just right in adjacent coils then tied off. It would slip down over the mouthpiece until tight.

On the physics side, I have no idea whether the pressure was exerted mostly on the thicker center part of the reed - or whether the force ended up on the reed's two edges, but it played beautifully.

Eventually the cotton would start looking dirty and I'd have to make a new one. As the years rolled by, I got lazy and started using my metal ligature again, but I really did enjoy using those cotton string ligatures.

Fuzzy
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