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Re: Rovner Versa Slips

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-02-26 18:06

Paul Aviles wrote:

> ...Also, (if you can spare the time that is)
> you can quickly tighten; take off mouthpiece; put back on;
> loosen. These ligatures make this operation pretty easy.
>

Yes, that at least keeps the reed in place. This would work for pieces that have reasonable instrument changes. Then, there's Mahler...

It's hard to understand why this problem never occurred to the product engineers at Vandoren. So many things that reach the market - not at all exclusively in the clarinet world - seem never to have been tested under real world conditions during the design process. Vandoren certainly knows that orchestra players need to change instruments. At least as many move only the mouthpiece, not the barrel. Did no one try to do this at the factory? Did they mean to market this ligature only to band players and pit musicians who don't ever use A clarinets. Even string holds the mouthpiece better, or at least exposes enough mouthpiece to grip around the string.

Thanks for the suggestions. I need to decide if I like the Versa enough compared to a couple of other possibilities that don't have this problem to want to accommodate it in these ways. Maybe use the Versa when I don't need to make changes quickly and something else - maybe Optimum - when I do. Or just look for something else.

Or transpose everything to one instrument and never change during a piece.

Karl

Post Edited (2015-02-26 18:07)

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