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Re: Ligatures

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2022-09-25 15:28

Certainly a lot of very good points. There are bunch of symphony players that DON'T change their equipment (I think Drucker was one). After all why would you keep looking for your car keys if you'd already found them? I have to admit that I am actually quite jealous of the content. Although in over fifty years I have only just begun using only one mouthpiece for more than a year and I'm going on about four years now.......yeah me.

My more recent ligature adventure (not that I stopped for long) was an attempt to make Legere reeds sound as lively as possible. They have been, since the European Signature introduction, real contenders to cane. However, one would have to admit that they are not 100% there yet. After finding out that plastic and carbon fiber ligatures make a significant difference with the performance of the Legere reeds, I discovered that I may have left constancy of articulation from note to note behind......plastic and carbon fiber are more "brilliant" sounding but are not always even throughout the scale when performing staccato noted figures.

The bottom line though with ANY equipment upgrade, and no matter what level you play, is that you are striving to make what YOU DO easier. The idea that someone else will hear the difference is not even the point and it is counterproductive to the notion that equipment is important at all. Give students crappy horns, let 'em use shoe laces for ligatures........

now really

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

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