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 Re: Ligature for soloists?
Author: seabreeze 
Date:   2022-08-07 18:50

Fedele's metric ton survey of ligatures has been up for at least a couple of years (despite the more recent date given), and his main point seems to be that ligatures can change the tension in the throat, oral cavity, and embouchure, enough to make playing easier or more of a chore, and even to the extent of changing the pitch when the note first speaks, and affecting the player's health (headaches, tight throat)as they labor to correct these deficiencies. His presentation inspired me to pull out my menagerie of ligatures and give them a similar run through. My drawer contained about 85% of the same ligatures, but I didn't have any of the early generation "Patented" Bonades. I get very different results, as I suspect many other players also would.
The Brancher is way duller, the Harrison slides up, the Leblanc is thin and buzzy, the Ishimori is less problematic, and so forth. I wish I had one of those Donald Montanaro prototypes to try (the last ligature he plays). What became of those? Also he should have thrown in a few Silversteins and maybe an exotic Momo or two for comparison. After running the same gamut, I easily settled on my Ann Arbor Kaspar inverse and the Ted Johnson copy as my favorites--two worthy ligatures he didn't try, and a French ligature--the Ligaphone gold plated--was my runner-up. All three give me stability in the sound--no broken attacks; the pitch is on target from the outset. and I feel no throat tension. And the sound is full bodied with good shape across the range. What does that prove? Nothing except to suggest what will work best for me--just for me without any attempt to generalize for others. The BG gold-plated Tradition model that Donald likes also can work well for me--it does add focus and resonance--but getting the vertical rails just so over the center of base of the reed is a bit of a nuisance.

Amie Ma also has a ligature comparison video: Clarinet Ligature Review. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=clarinet+;igature+review+amie+ma



Post Edited (2022-08-08 07:08)
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