| An email list for
discussion of bass and contrabass instruments of all kinds.
To subscribe, send a message with "subscribe" in the subject
line to contrabass-request@contrabass.com,
or go to the subscription
page.
To post, send your message to contrabass-list@contrabass.com. See the Archive for back issues. |
Contrabass-list Fri, 12 Dec 1997 Volume 1 : Number 61
In this issue:
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 22:40:03 -0500
From: Bob
Thomas <thomas@usit.net>
Subject: shoe string
ligature
Jim in VA wrote:
>I have no opinions on mouthpiece, but I prefer a shoelace for the
>ligature. (Six turns, shove it down a bit -- leaves lots of play
>for getting the reed just right.) Anyone else try this on a contra
>clarinet and care to share opinion?
I keep a cutoff shoelace in each of my cases as an emergency substitute ligature. It works at least as well as any other ligature I've tried. The reed feels really loose but has never moved while being played. If I didn't have so much invested in the store bought ligatures, I'd probably chuck them all and go with the shoe strings. Anyway, if you use a flat black string, wrap it carefully, and don't leave too much of the looped-under end hanging off it doesn't look nearly as funky as you would imagine.
Bob in VA
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:39:20 -0800 (PST)
From:
bj914@scn.org (John Micheal Bush)
Subject: ligatures
I haven't played a contra, but I use a velcro strap as a ligature on my sax. It works like a shoestring, but is easier. And plays better than most expensive ligatures.
John Bush
--
Imperial Space Cowboy, Aspiring Beatnik, and high school
level musician.
btw, looking for a moderately priced
sarrusophone.
Check out my jazz/funk/blues combo
sometime!
End of contrabass-list V1 #61