The Leatherature is quite simply the best ligature you will ever play.
Designed and hand-woven by our friend, Warren Cadwell, the Leatherature provides your reed and mouthpiece with a gentle yet firm contact; perfect for everything you want your set-up to provide. Made of woven leather, the Leatherature advances the concept of a string ligature by using superior material and an innovative woven design.
The leather will not stretch, a result of the ingenious weaving pattern which displaces tension in multiple directions, avoiding any stress on the leather. An amazing bonus feature for this ligature is that by grasping and applying equal pressure on the Leatherature, the mouthpiece can be removed without altering the placement of the reed—an excellent feature for quick changes between B-flat and A clarinet.
The Leatherature is available in B-flat, E-flat and Bass Clarinet sizes, with all saxophone sizes coming soon!
TOOLS AND RESOURCES by Ben Armato
REED WIZARD
A sophisticated, high-tech device that can quickly and
accurately adjust a single reed to an established norm. Removes all of the guess work from reed adjustment. This, glass and fine sand paper are all Ben uses to make reeds perfect. A must have!!
PERFECT A REED
An ingenious device that takes the guesswork out of reed adjustments. Designed to measure the entire area of single reeds, the user can reproduce reeds to exact measurements.
PERFECT A REED ... and BEYOND
Famed Metropolitan Opera Orchestra clarinetist, Ben Armato authored this manual that discusses many topics relating to the clarinet, especially reed adjusting.
THE OPERA CLARINETIST
These excerpts, compiled and edited by Ben Armato, are reproduced from the original Metropolitan Opera parts and should be in every clarinetist's repertoire.
DOCTORS PRODUCTS BY DR. OMAR HENDERSON
DR. SLICK This especially formulated, all natural blend of expensive nontoxic exotic waxes, oils, antioxidants, stabilizers and Slippery Elm Bark Extract (Nature’s Teflon™), controls the dimensional stability and water balance of cork while enabling smooth assembly and disassembly of your instrument.
BLACK LEGEND SWAB
The Black “Legend” Swab™ will remove all the moisture with one pass. The unique design with Shibori Notch (patent pending) forms a balloon form so that the entire swab contacts the bore.