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Re: Ridenour MP

Author: Tom Ridenour
Date: 2013-11-17 07:34

"I did not have anything to do with the design of the Signature Bb or the A. I simply consider the Signature Bb, in its better examples, to be an excellent clarinet with an outstanding, carefully tuned scale, most especially for the first two registers.

I don't believe we're the only ones who make viable, efficient acoustical designs. Acoustical designs that are acceptably efficient are not fixed to one thing only. They can vary to meet artistic purposes, without gravely impairing efficiency and stability to unacceptable degrees.
At that point, the choice becomes one of either taste or need.

This is intelligent thinking regarding the instrument.

Let's take a lesson from other instrumentalists.

Ask a trombone player what the best instrument is. He'll respond with a question: "For what purpose?"

He'll tell you the best trombone for playing 4th trombone is not the best for playing lead trombone, or bass trombone. He'll tell you the best trombone for playing Bolero is not the same as the best for playing Beethoven's 5th.

Why does he think in such a way? Because he thinks of the MUSIC first, and only THEN he thinks of what instrument makes playing the music the easiest.

Ask any trumpet player what trumpet is best. He'll give you the same response: "For what PURPOSE?" His answers will range from a number of Bb trumpets, to C trumpets to cornets (my favorite).

Why is it so many clarinet players never seem to think in this way? Why is it so many only think in the vaguest and most abstract of ways, and consider there is a "one size fits all" answer to the question, "What is the best clarinet?"

Ridenour Clarinet Products,
rclarinetproducts.com
sales@ridenourclarinetproducts.com

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