Paul Warner
Member
Every so often a new something or other invites us to part with our cash in return for the answer to everything saxophonic. Want to improve your sound? The new, entirely revolutionary and exciting `resobongler` etc., etc......you`ve heard it.
Now, if they work, the Bois ligatures might well offer something worth having for relatively little. In theory a ligature should hold a reed securely with the minimum mechanical interference to its inherent flexibility/resonance. Clamp it on too tight, or over too large an area, and you`ll strangle it! Neither do you want to smother the mouthpiece with too much resonance damping contact. That`s the working principle behind the Rovner type of lig. The Bois design controls the reed with just one minimal point of contact with the reed, and two with the mouthpiece. Basically its a narrow ring of something like ebonite containing an `O` ring which is slipped over m/p and reed. That`s it! Brilliant!
Now, before I rush out and buy one for each sax and each type on m/p (metal and ebonite vary in circumference etc.), do they work? Has anyone tried one?
Now, if they work, the Bois ligatures might well offer something worth having for relatively little. In theory a ligature should hold a reed securely with the minimum mechanical interference to its inherent flexibility/resonance. Clamp it on too tight, or over too large an area, and you`ll strangle it! Neither do you want to smother the mouthpiece with too much resonance damping contact. That`s the working principle behind the Rovner type of lig. The Bois design controls the reed with just one minimal point of contact with the reed, and two with the mouthpiece. Basically its a narrow ring of something like ebonite containing an `O` ring which is slipped over m/p and reed. That`s it! Brilliant!
Now, before I rush out and buy one for each sax and each type on m/p (metal and ebonite vary in circumference etc.), do they work? Has anyone tried one?