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Re: a new metal ligature

Author: Ken Lagace
Date: 2018-07-01 21:15

Try holding the reed with your right thumb, finger with the left hand, and see how the clarinet plays. Any ligature holds the reed and takes away something from the sound. Metal ligatures tend to clamp the reed stronger and leather or string type ligatures grip more gently. Possibly the broken ligature held the reed in a way that helped the sound and the new ligature clamped it in a way that distorted it?
Experimenting with the position and tightness would help you find a way that it works better. If there are lines around the middle of the mouthpiece, they are markers so to keep the ligature below them.

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