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Re: Tightening ligature screws

Author: BandieSF
Date: 2009-10-17 19:38

Well, if you want to look at this from a scientific/physics point of view, the best result would be, in the case of a lig that has two screws, tighten the bottom screw the tightest and the top one a little looser than that. The physics of a reed and the sound it makes, in a nutshell, is that it is made to vibrate with one end stationary or fully anchored and the other one vibrating. So if you want to come at it from the whole-system-vibrating approach, the best thing to do to maximize the CORRECT vibration pattern would be to anchor the end down and leave the rest free to resonate.

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