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<blockquote data-quote="Colin the Bear" data-source="post: 562996" data-attributes="member: 2360">There&#039;s a vast range of ligatures that hold the reed in many different ways. There&#039;s also a vast range of mouthpieces in various materials with a frustrating number of individual flaws, often not visible to the naked eye. Add to this the varying outer shapes of of all these mouthpieces and the permutations become endless. Most players have experience of a limited number of mouthpieces and probably fewer ligatures. A new ligature may accommodate the flaws and anomalies in an individual mouthpiece more successfully than the last. After dressing a HR mouthpiece table flat and balancing the rails the replacement manufacturers ligature plays beautifully on my second hand piece, but so did the ligature it came with.&nbsp;The difference? Two screw to one screw, for convenience and of course, the &quot;cool&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Colin the Bear, post: 562996, member: 2360"] There's a vast range of ligatures that hold the reed in many different ways. There's also a vast range of mouthpieces in various materials with a frustrating number of individual flaws, often not visible to the naked eye. Add to this the varying outer shapes of of all these mouthpieces and the permutations become endless. Most players have experience of a limited number of mouthpieces and probably fewer ligatures. A new ligature may accommodate the flaws and anomalies in an individual mouthpiece more successfully than the last. After dressing a HR mouthpiece table flat and balancing the rails the replacement manufacturers ligature plays beautifully on my second hand piece, but so did the ligature it came with. The difference? Two screw to one screw, for convenience and of course, the "cool" [/QUOTE]

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