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Re: Theo Wanne Enlightened Clarinet Ligature

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2022-09-24 01:27
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Hey Dan,

I just have three things to say:

THANK YOU!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

I decided to try the Enlightened for myself since there are a lot of good characteristics. The ligature turns out to be far better than I could have predicted. Firstly, my current evaluation technique is based on Dale Fedele's approach shown in "Testing a Metric Ton of Ligatures." I now look for ligatures that present a lively, bouncing, ringing articulated style on ALL notes of the scale (some ligatures will give you some rather dull sounding notes.....try it). This ligature's sound just dances throughout the room.

Then there is a brilliance in the sound that may be attributed to the inherent "springiness" of the ligature. The three points of contact referred to in the literature (and videos) are really the top and side edges of the top two thirds of an octagon. The bottom half of this ligature make no contact at all with the mouthpiece and are very long sides that begin to bow slightly with the tightening (which you still don't want to do too much of course). The sound is beautifully resonant and I find this to be the best overall ligature for me at the moment (a necessary disclaimer for me of course).

.......thanks again,

...................Paul Aviles

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