{"id":891,"date":"2020-05-03T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T16:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=891"},"modified":"2022-05-05T12:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T19:28:24","slug":"jodyjazz-power-ring-ligatures-blow-away-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"JodyJazz Power Ring Ligatures Blow Away the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/power_ring.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-892\" width=\"484\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/power_ring.jpeg 967w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/power_ring-300x221.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/power_ring-768x565.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Clarinet and Saxophone Magazine asked me for a follow-up article on ligatures five years after my original &#8220;Ligature Choices&#8221; piece in 2015.  In &#8220;Latest Ligatures&#8221; I reviewed many new products and then ranked all of the ligatures from both articles.  The absolutely stellar Power Ring, a work of sheer genius, went straight to the top.  I recently tested the amazing new Chedeville Umbra clarinet mouthpieces against a handful of my very favourite &#8216;pieces out of the four dozen I own.  The most incredible thing was how much better those mouthpieces played than I remembered&#8230;and it was due to this ligature!  For more details, you can find the article on the educational resources page of this website.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarinet and Saxophone Magazine asked me for a follow-up article on ligatures five years after my original &#8220;Ligature Choices&#8221; piece in 2015. In &#8220;Latest Ligatures&#8221; I reviewed many new products and then ranked all of the ligatures from both articles. The absolutely stellar Power Ring, a work of sheer genius, went straight to the top. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zTpS-en","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}