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 Re: Ligatures affect tone--demonstration
Author: John Peacock 
Date:   2014-10-20 11:11

If you expect a given ligature to sound different, you quite plausibly will indeed make it sound different, just by unconscious adjustments in how you play. This long-running question can be settled, but it requires blind testing: a friend puts on different ligatures at random, you play while blindfolded and guess which one it was. Same philosophy applies to barrels. Personally I still remain to be convinced that ligatures make a noticeable difference, whereas I'm pretty sure that different barrels of even allegedly the identical model can sound quite different. But even there you can come unstuck: I was trying a pair of barrels (A & B) and became convinced I liked A better than B. I kept on trying different pieces and was sure I could feel a consistent difference in response. Then while packing away I discovered that I'd got A and B swapped at some point in the testing - but I still preferred the one I thought was A, even though it was actually B some of the time...
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