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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-01-05 05:52
Attachment: rare_ligature.jpg (57k)
1) Does anyone recognize the ligature in this picture and maybe know where to get it or one like it?
It seems to have the ability to adjust to a size that when dropped over the mouthpiece tip, can slide to the correct point of clamping, given a mouthpiece and reed brand (i.e. base thickness) combination, and then quickly clamp the reed with the piece in the front.
2) Any suggestions for an easy on/of adjustable ligature for testing/adjusting reeds? Sound quality the ligature produces, in this case, is of secondary importantance, although it would be great if an inexpensive, easy on/off and great [sound] quality ligature was out there.
Thanks
Post Edited (2015-01-05 05:56)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2015-01-05 06:08
I've never seen anything like it. I don't see anything that would loosen or tighten the ligature. The attachment looks like a flap to protect the reed and keep it moist when you're not playing.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-01-05 06:08
Don't know the imaged ligature but a really good, fast 'on and off' is the Vandoren M/O.......and just a good all around ligature for ANY mouthpiece.
............Paul Aviles
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-01-05 06:20
It is kind of curious Ken why there's a screw in the front when the ligature's in one piece there.
How might a screw in front increase or decrease the ligature's circumference?
Maybe it controls a plate on the inside of the "lig" that presses against the reed.
Paul: Agreed. More than I (or my wife) might want [me] to spend right now, but agreed.
Thanks
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2015-01-05 11:19
it's "just" a built-in cap, if you want.
Lig closes on the back, like many others. The reed-side screw just fastens the "cap". I wonder if this was a homemade or small-series modification.
Maybe one of the "patent database grave diggers" in here has a hint?
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Ben
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-01-05 17:10
Thanks Ben.
Yeah...sigh...I guess if the piece I was hoping was a clamping mechanism wasn't essential a, to paraphrase you, reed guard, it wouldn't be shaped like a spoon.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2015-01-05 17:49
Curious that this should come up at this particular time, as only a few days back I was looking at some pics of old (early 20th century) klezmer bands, and one of the clarinettists had a ligature exactly like this.
Tony F.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-01-05 18:03
...a way to save on metal usage (prior to plastic) for a mouthpiece cap when War efforts prioritized the need for such materials????
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