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Author: blueklarinet
Date: 2006-01-09 02:50
I was on the clarinet board i noticed a lot of talk about ligatures and stuff and i have a story to share. A lot of people wanna know what is the best ligature out there. It seems to be accepted that the metal ligs that come with clarinets are crap. I agree. I had a luyben clear plastic ligature and i did notice a change from the metal ligs but the luyben lig is not what i would call spectacular. I gave me what i would call a "plain sound" nothing special about it. I have used a rovner for a long time and i kinda just stopped thinking about whether or not it was the best ligature out there. I just lived with it and accepted it. However, one day i found the right ligature combination. The ligature was a cheap metal Selmer lig with 2 screws in the front. The reed was a Vandoren V12 3.5. The mouthpiece was a plastic Selmer "goldentone" 2 mouthpiece, long faced and VERY closed. I placed the ligature a little lower than normal on the mouthpiece and loosed the screws so that they just barely held the reed in place. I then played and out of my clarinet came the most round, robust, pure, beautiful sound i have ever played. The next day i tried the same thing but did not get the same result and i don't think i've ever produced a sound as lovely since that day. I guess that beautiful sound was just one ligature, one reed, one mouthpiece, one day, one moment in time...
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