Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-06-11 17:42
What is wrong with your current instrument--or to rephrase, I seek to hear the argument(s), coming from you, that make me feel that you realize what a new clarinet will, and equally important, what it won't do for you.
Second, the musical instrument market space is not one where, necessarily, the vast majority of people are playing "the" best manufacturer's instrument. Sometimes, it's better described, to Steve'e above point, metaphorically speaking, by "..well my dad's dad drove a Buick (Buffet), my dad drives a Buick, and we are a Buick family so I will drive one as well..." if you catch my drift.
By no means is this an attempt to trash Buffet: which this writer plays. But other factors sometimes go into the clarinet purchase decision that don't go directly to price and quality--which can be bad reasons that lead to less than optimal decisions.
Some market spaces are like this. For example--to keep this brief--take software. Sometimes the Word Processor everyone buys is the one with the best market share (read: the manufacturer will be in business 5 years from now to support it)--which might have gotten to its position of prominence being the best at the time (which might or might not still be the case), while competitors come out with possibly more feature rich and/or cheaper products that just can't knock the big king off its mountain to achieve the market share necessary for survival.
Final point on this thread: I'm not suggesting you do or don't buy Ridenour, which I think are great clarinets, especially for the price, but rather, I wish to leave you with some food for thought--that might stir up some debate:
is a Buffet Tosca, with its low F correction key a feature or product limitation when Tom Ridenour claims to make clarinets that don't need one.
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