Vandoren Carbon ligature
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A mouthpiece? You can buy 2-3 really nice pieces for that money. How about a Barone neck, a $350 boutique piece, and enough to buy most any ligature besides this one and the Roberto’s Egg…you can afford the napkin ring though.
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It’s incredibly that while mouthpiece makers are trying to make some products more affordable, either using different materials or doing sales every now and then, ligatures are becoming more expensive!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯. I don’t get it!! It’s BY FAR the least important part of an instrument. I always used a “shoe” analogy when it comes to ligatures. The shoe itself ( mouthpiece), the sole(reeds), the style and colour ( the horn), the strings ( the ligature). That’s all it does, holding the shoe to your foot, keeping it tight and comfortable positioned. That’s it.
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the use of carbon fiber in most saxophone applications maks no sense at all.
The material has a lower weight ( when brands like vandoren also propagate the wrong notion that heavier “ mass” equals better sound ) and a higher tensile resistance ( which, if anything, would encourage over tightening which induces all manner of problems).
The true reason is that they can ask (because of the perceived “ value”) a lot more money than they normally can ask.
Ligatures are, as noted above, things with a limited, fairly simple function but one of the areas where marketing has always concentrated
The material has a lower weight ( when brands like vandoren also propagate the wrong notion that heavier “ mass” equals better sound ) and a higher tensile resistance ( which, if anything, would encourage over tightening which induces all manner of problems).
The true reason is that they can ask (because of the perceived “ value”) a lot more money than they normally can ask.
Ligatures are, as noted above, things with a limited, fairly simple function but one of the areas where marketing has always concentrated
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For people with more money than sense.
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Golden screw is right.
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Thank the mouthpiece Gods I will not be tempted to buy or try one as it is mouthpiece specific!
So limited to a specific mouthpiece body profile.
NB: the “CARBON” ligature is designed to be played only with Vandoren mouthpieces
We can all relax cause these things are not going to sell, I will wait for a Chinese knock off.
Maybe someone will make a carbon fiber mouthpiece and label it the Hummingbird the lightest mouthpiece available pair it with a carbon fiber reed and ligature and sell it for those wanting to enhance their trill skills?
So limited to a specific mouthpiece body profile.
NB: the “CARBON” ligature is designed to be played only with Vandoren mouthpieces
We can all relax cause these things are not going to sell, I will wait for a Chinese knock off.
Maybe someone will make a carbon fiber mouthpiece and label it the Hummingbird the lightest mouthpiece available pair it with a carbon fiber reed and ligature and sell it for those wanting to enhance their trill skills?
“I play sax but mostly it plays me”
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I’m a ligature collector and all of 40+ ligatures combined didn’t cost this much. Besides the fact that carbon fiber is not a very good material for use for saxophones. I’ll take brass or copper any day of the week.
Just one mouthpiece?
And I would never consider spending $70 on a ligature (love my Rovners!), let alone $700. That price is just stupid.
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...or dollars than cents.
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Incredibly light in weight;
Does not interfere with your reed's natural vibrations
Full clear harmonic spectrum
Makes attacks and articulation much easier🤔
Cannonball Vintage Reborn Tenor Sax with Cannonball 5J hr (Meyer clone produced by JJ Babbitt))
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Doesn't practice do all of that?
Why practice when you can just buy chops?
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