How to discern Bonade clarinet ligature vintages
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Bonade clarinet ligatures are like the Buffets of ligatures. Once they were magical, and they're still just about the best thing around today...but they're inconsistent. Swapping screws can help on the modern ones, but you can also find a nice older one on eBay for cheap. Save your $200+ dollars and get the ligature from the greatest recordings that defined the characteristic American sound.
He was a very famous, influential teacher and player. I recently bought 2 inverted ones and was very disappointed with the quality of them. Thank you Dale. God bless you. Bill. Uk
My teacher use to fix my ligature to play more like the previous gens. He had an old mouthpiece with the reed glued onto it then would lightly tap the lig with a mallet to make it more round. Then adjusted the front to bend how it gripped on the reed without touching the mouthpiece. Then took a file to even the rails and make them less thick. Setup right you don't have to tighten too much and the lig will last longer. Get better articulation too. In the 90s every ligs all came out different. Some weren't even round at all new right out of the box.
i have a very old one made of brass. i am restoring it with new rails that i made from keyway stock. the old rails fell off long ago but your vids have given me new interest in it. taking it to my tec to silver solder the new rails in tomorrow.
the new rails are soldered in and fine tuned with a dremil . so far the results are very good. i notice more depth to the tone and more volume and faster articulation. a success. thanks to your vidio dale for the inspiration
Extremely helpful
scored a german silver patented one today. cant wait to try it. found it in a friends junk lig box who dosnt play clarinet. he gave it to me. lucky day
Woah??? Congratulations!!! For clarinet or alto sax? Send me a picture!! dalemfedele@gmail.com
@@DaleFedele its for clarinet and it plays amazing. big difference from the nickel plated brass later ones!
David Weber, who studied with Bonade, basically said the same thing about the rails. It was to prevent the ligature from bending into the reed.
great video and extreamly helpfull. I wanted to ask if you know how invreted bonades differ for non inverted, in terms of response, articulation and sound?
Where is the best place especially online to find older Bonades?
Ebay
These are great ligatures, but so are Selmer brass ligatures, made in France by HB.
How much did you pay for the D.BONADE, the first version, If I may know?
$20 hahaha
@@DaleFedele The auction has It 405$, do you think It worths It? I don't..
@@jimis3167 I would have spent $405 of the metal wasn't stretched out...there are stress fractures in the one on ebay
@@DaleFedele Yes, and most importantly, I don't like the crooked rail..
You like Bonade more than BG duo?
Yes I do, but I play mainly orchestral (principal) gigs. I'm looking for as much resonance as possible. The problem with the Duo is it is TOO FLEXIBLE and I don't get a "pop" or "center" or "ring"...I also find my articulation is more sluggish with the duo, because there is some "flex" in the metal, the reed has more to travel. The beauty of these early Bonades is, without even tightening the screws, the reed doesn't move...so the reed has less distance to travel when I articulate, it rebounds faster!
@@DaleFedele Hmm! Interesting, thanks!
@@DaleFedele I also notice that you don't use any mouthpiece patches, isn't that bad for the mouthpiece ""health""? I mean, teeth don't leave marks on mouthpieces???
@@jimis3167 you know, I remember seeing Phil Woods live right before he passed. He famously played one mouthpiece for around 40 years, a New York USA Meyer 5M Medium Chamber. I noticed there were no teeth indentations, only cosmetic superficial marks on his mouthpiece. When I asked him about it, he said, "No pressure!" That stuck with me...yes some of my mouthpieces have cosmetic marks, but they aren't deep enough due to my (some would say extreme) lack of jaw pressure (or downward neck pressure)
@@DaleFedele OK, but they they're not slippery playing without patch???