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German mouthpiece

Author: Joe_R
Date: 2008-08-05 14:57

When playing a German clarinet with a German mouthpiece, is there a noticeable difference between securing the reed with string, leather, fabric or metal ligature?

Which do you prefer?

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Re: German mouthpiece

Author: Noqu
Date: 2008-08-06 11:42

I have tried string and fabric ligature (on a German Schreiber clarinet with a German Viotto N1 mouthpiece and German Steuer S100 reeds) and could not find any difference in the sound. Neither could people I asked to listen to me playing.

What I did find, though, was that the ligature makes it much easier to adjust the reed position, so I prefer the ligature.

But I believe there are a lot of religious wars on this, so you should probably just decide for yourself.

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Re: German mouthpiece

Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-08-06 12:04

If a traditionalist insists that you must use string, not a ligature, just point out that Sabine Meyer uses a ligature and it hasn't held her career back.

http://www.sabine-meyer.com/img/presse/images/sabinemeyer-pf3.jpg

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