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RE: Bass Clarinet Ligature(s)

Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2001-09-27 00:11

Dave S... said, in part:
"On bass clarinet, I like the old standard Vandoren metal inverted ligature, although I confess to using Rovner fabric ligatures on every other size of clarinet I play, and on all my saxes. I just find that on bass clarinet the Rovner damps out the high frequencies just a bit too much for the type of sound I try to get on b.c."

Stephan added a little to this thought when he said:
:OK, on ligatures - they're secondary to reed choice. Once you settle on a reed/mouthpiece combination, you can tweak the sound by changing ligs. There are basically two kinds of ligatures: those that damp high harmonics of the reed and those that encourage them. The ones that damp the high harmonics can also slow articulation some. The ones that damp tend to try to couple themselves to the reed over a large area and are either soft or have some mass at the reed. The ones that encourage free vibration have small contact area and/or little mass."

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