Author: TJTG
Date: 2011-07-21 00:23
Hello Everybody,
I've been going through Ridenour's video's on youtube, as well as a good deal of reading on his website. He seems to make a lot of well articulated points regarding mass-produced instruments. I've read reviews of his Lyrique line and they seem to only speak his praises, but then again, so do reviews of Buffet, Selmer... blah blah blah.
Does anybody have points to make against his line of instruments? He seems very keen to hard rubber. But if the properties he describes, regarding the substance, are so good, why don't more 'top tier' companies use the material?
It all seems to be too good to be true. For the price of a new Prestige Bb and A from Buffet, I could get myself a C, Bb, A, and basset clarinet from Ridenour for nearly half the cost. Ridenour himself explains his reason for low prices, and the reasoning for higher prices in the big name companies. If this were the case, why don't more professionals gravitate towards him?
I suppose, more than anything, I'm looking for other people's input.
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