Author: SecondTry
Date: 2022-11-30 20:55
Hi Eric:
Thank you for your video. I thoroughly enjoy your content and love how you never forsake objectivity for art, nor art for objectivity.
It sounds like (no pun intended) the carbon fiber's price is far too much for me to enjoy less variation among the performance of my cane reeds than the limited variation across reeds that my current (M/O) ligature contributes to.
Restated, of course, like all of us, I experience enormous variation in play between cane reeds, but also like nearly all of us, 99% of that variation in cane reeds lies in the reeds themselves, and not other factors like mouthpiece, ligature, or other external factors. YMMV.
Perhaps at some point you will be able to try the ligature with some synthetics to judge Paul Aviles enthusiastic review of the carbon fiber ligature with these "puppies." I too have tried the Soprano Sax Legere's when I read about (I think) Ricardo Morales using them in lieu of clarinet Legeres, along with the cheapest competent Eb clarinet ligature I could find, on my Bb setup. I was motivated to do so seeking in vain sharper intonation versus the clarinet Legeres. LSS I'm still a cane player.
And Paul, while I appreciate your hack, as I know you must appreciate, as each person's hack to get the Soprano sax reed to fit here is different, it introduces one more point of variability in the product across users, on top of the enormous level of variability that is the human experience. 
All this said, from a business ethics standpoint--much that Vandoren forces nobody to buy, I question just how much a markup $500 is from their cost, and how much cheaper this ligature could be produced in quantities similar to the exiting M/O lineup.
Post Edited (2022-11-30 20:56)
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