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Author: Gavin
Date: 2000-11-07 06:29
Meg, I have a B45 mouthpiece, but play on mitchel lurie 5 1/2. Ligatures do make a difference. I've played on a BG ligature for almost 10 years, although the first one I got became "threaded". IMHO, it is a vast improvement on the metal things that come with new clarinets.
Recently at a pit production, the trombonist was horsing around and hid my ligature. No problem, I just took of one of my shoelaces and tied it around the mouthpiece and played with it for the second Act, much to the amazement of the trombonist (who couldn't play at all without his slide...).
Doc Marten shoe laces I found are actually very well suited to being ligatures. They even come in a variety of bright colours which I proceeded to use on subsequent nights of the production. The sound produced is different. A matter of personal choice, and perhaps a matter of choosing the ligature for the type of music you are playing. There is a book by David Pino in which "string ligatures" are explained. I read this many years ago and decided to keep it in mind in case anything happened to my ligature.
The downside is that it takes longer to slap on a reed and you have to be very careful when changing instruments (ie from A to Bb and vice versa). The Doc Marten shoe laces in the bright colours cost me all of $3.00 Australian. That's US$1.50. Cheaper than reeds! Well worth a go, as the ligatures mentioned above are probably quite expensive, although I will probably try them out some time.
Have fun experimenting!
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