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Re: Ligature

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2023-04-10 23:11

Of course this brings me back to my early days of playing, well before the "inverted ligatures" (screws on the top) came more into fashion. You could take the standard metal ligature with two screws and just flip it (of course you are then tightening the ligature with the holes of the clarinet facing you.....if you're right handed).

The advantage of doing the above was (in theory) that instead of having some of the force in the tightening going toward the center of the reed (pinching it), you were literally just tightening DOWN on the reed. I was one of those who did this until I got my first dedicated inverted ligature..........and that's how my "gear headedness" began.

..............Paul Aviles

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