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Re: Ridenour 576 or Libertas?

Author: Tom Ridenour
Date: 2014-02-15 17:24

My opinions can be found below;

The argument of the two two students was anecdotal but I believe that was stated. Their are literally dozens (many more actually) of such anecdotal cases though. Furthermore, accomplished players are using hard rubber clarinets in professional enviorments of all variety and their are no reported problems with projection. If their really was an issue with projection I dont understand how so many players, including some of the finest players in the world, would have purchased and be playing on hard rubber clarinets in any type of enviornment you can name.

The fact that the same thing was said when the Opus/Concerto came out is to my mind a strong indication as to what is inspiring the statements from a handful of individuals regarding projection. It's not that said individuals "don't know what their talking about" it's that when your invested in an idea whatever it may be (a way of doing business, a philosophy, a form of goverenment, or the material by which clarinets should be made), people will say almost anything to justify holding onto their position.

That is why the stories of Ivan Muller and the transition from wooden flutes to metal ones was brought up. We're the professors in Paris who rejected Mullers clarinet ignorant? Of course not. But they had invested so much time and effort into how they had been doing things that to accept something else was all but impossible for them. What Tom said has nothing to do with people not knowing what their talking about.

Ted Ridenour

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

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