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Author: Ted Donaldson
Date: 2001-09-01 17:47
I have a choice between rovner and the rovner with a plate at the bottom. Which should i get for my bass.
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Author: Kyle Jubenville
Date: 2001-09-01 19:51
I highly recommend the rovner with the plate(the Eddie Daniels version I believe). It is the choice of many professionals and professors that i know. besides there are a variety of ways you can place the ligature to generate a different sound.
Good luck.
Kyle
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-09-01 23:00
Can you widen your choice and actually try them out ahead of time? It's a lot of money to spend!
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Author: Ted Donaldson
Date: 2001-09-02 00:37
yes. My music man (lol i am in lack of words) has told me i can try them both out. And i will try out whatever else he has in stock.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-09-02 00:46
Good idea. Try out everything, with no preconceived notions (I know, it's hard ;^) My son, a junior at CIM studying with Frank Cohen, has tried a lot of different ligatures over the years.
He regularly plays an ancient Buffet stock ligature with the plating all worn off. He gets the best sound out of that $5 hunk of brass.
Go figure.
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Author: Carmen Izzo
Date: 2001-09-02 04:34
DUDE! Try em both out!!!, or go with the silver/gold VANDOREN OPTIMUM!!!!!-the greatest lig ever
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Author: Robert Small
Date: 2001-09-02 04:47
Bonades work well on bass.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-09-04 09:55
Hehe!
I loved reading that, Mark.
I reckon the purpose of different ligatures is to line the pockets of the makers.
They'd sell a huge variety of megabuck octave keys too if they thought of that. And you could change octave keys between concert items for that elusive 'appropriate' sound.
Sax players bleat endlessly about the effect of different pad resonators on the tone and response. I wonder why clarinet players haven't latched onto this very worrysome aspect of clarinet tone yet.
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-09-04 14:29
Gordon's absolutely right! I use Vandoren Optimum unobtainium-plated resonators (only $39.99 each, US dollars only (sorry, Gordon!)) on my sax, and I'm so loud the guitarists have to use AMPLIFIERS to keep up with me!!!!
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Author: Jim Lee
Date: 2001-09-04 14:47
I have a Rovner dark and a BG revelator plus (gold plated metal) and a 30 year old Bonade. I keep coming back to the Bonade. I guess I am too old (62) to change. I think we should find one that feels right. Most all of them will sound exactly the same to your audience.
BTY if you diasgree with this you will not hurt my feelings!
Jim
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