Ligatures Bois Ligature Sizes

[Jules]

Do we have any experts on Bois Ligs here, or has anyone seen a sizing chart for these things? I've just acquired a Lawton tenor mouthpiece which came with a spare Lig in the form of a metal Bois Ring Lig. This thing fits on a Metal Tenor Lawton but I can't, for the life of me, work out what size it is from their range- 25mm across the centre. It doesn't fit ebonite alto, tenor or soprano- no to metal Links or Berg Larsens. It seems inconceivable they made a unique size which only fits Lawtons?

 

[Colin the Bear]

If Lawtons have a unique size, why wouldn't they?

 

[Ivan]

It seems inconceivable they made a unique size which only fits Lawtons?

Is now the time to conceive of the inconceivable?

 

[jazzdoh]

It seems inconceivable they made a unique size which only fits Lawtons?

I agree with you Jules, Lawton's come with a pretty good and effective built-in ligature, I would have thought that it wouldn't have made economic sense to have made a lig just for this mouthpiece.

 

[rhysonsax]

Bill Lewington used to sell Bois ligatures and their website still has a page on Bois and also what seems to be a partial sizing chart: Bois Ring Ligature for Clarinet and Saxophone Size Chart

I have used the Wayback machine internet archive to find old pages that are no longer available, and found more information, including a size for metal tenor mouthpieces (Bari, Otto Link and Sugal), dating from 2010, 2012 and 2014 Bois Ring Ligature for Clarinet and Saxophone Size Chart

From those old sizing charts it seems apparent that they had multiple sizes but not specials for a particular make and model.

Rhys

 

[Jules]

Bill Lewington used to sell Bois ligatures and their website still has a page on Bois and also what seems to be a partial sizing chart: Bois Ring Ligature for Clarinet and Saxophone Size Chart

I have used the Wayback machine internet archive to find old pages that are no longer available, and found more information, including a size for metal tenor mouthpieces (Bari, Otto Link and Sugal), dating from 2010, 2012 and 2014 Bois Ring Ligature for Clarinet and Saxophone Size Chart

From those old sizing charts it seems apparent that they had multiple sizes but not specials for a particular make and model.

Rhys

I'm suspecting what this is isn't a saxophone size, in that I've checked it on every conceivable size I've got access to in the shop...

 

[rhysonsax]

I'm suspecting what this is isn't a saxophone size, in that I've checked it on every conceivable size I've got access to in the shop...

Do the Bois ligatures have some code number or letter on them ?

Rhys