Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2016-08-28 08:22
This thread, particularly its discussion of how people may have a favorite ligature, but recognize the possibility that a more optimal (no pun to Vandoren's wares) situation can arise by gigging with more than one lig to accommodate for changes in play due to a reed, mouthpiece, humidity, and all else--may be better--even if those multiple ligs are each considered subordinate to the "single besty lig approach," has me ask the following.
Examining our world from this approach, are there particular ligs we feel are superior to changing from bright to dampening by adjusting them, like the Vandoren Optimum's pressure plates, that shine in their ability to accommodate varied play, if not have the greatest chance to maximize it as our one single go to lig?
Secondly, OP, I'm not sure you discussed (fully) what about your current choices in lig are having you look elsewhere. This may be important in deciding IF to switch ligs, and what to switch to.
Few of us remain with a lig. We switch, only to find time a component in our happiness and switch again, seeking to not lose what's good about the status quo, only to change what's bad.
Might the problem reside within? Should we look to ourselves for improvement? Do limited funds and time suggest the monies go elsewhere--especially in areas of study shown to effect improvement? What do I, (or any of us think we know about ligs) that Drucker, whose never changed his lig (and not because he raves about it like his Landelais mouthpiece) misses out on?
Am I ignorant? Quite possibly. Do people buy ligs in part because admitting fault lying within is a hard sell? Quite possibly. Do people buy ligs in part because they don't have, but seek Drucker's virtuosity, that in possession of same, they too would worry less about ligs?
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