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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2025-11-13 21:22
Am I still relevant?!?
Well, I’m as relevant as I’ve ever been……….
There are 3 maybe 4 POS’s (Piercy/Watts/Heinen/Needlesmen) who harass me and tried to get me banned from the ICA. Reason was they claimed (falsely) that I harassed them, when in fact I was defending myself against their constant attacks and backstabbing.
My Facebook group is the largest Clarinetist group on the internet with 62,000 Clarinet players. I teach up a storm, worldwide.
Take it for what it’s worth.
www.ClarinetLessonOnline.com
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2025-11-13 22:39
No.
Quality and quantity aren't the same thing.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
Independent Woodwind Repairer
Single and Double Reed Specialist
Oboes, Clarinets and Saxes
NOT A MEMBER OF N.A.M.I.R.
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: donald
Date: 2025-11-14 01:32
Blumberg, the other post was asking if you were "revealant", not relevant.
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-11-14 05:56
I have no dog in this fight.
That said, there are rules here about doing our best to not have ad hominem attacks: i.e. attacks against a person's character, motive or attributes.
The board also goes on to recognize that sometimes it's hard to separate the two and that discretion is the better part of valor.
Of course you may say, "well David started this thread about his own persona." But that's not fair to him. The truth is he was defending a thread that about that persona that was previously launched here and probably should not have been, or nipped in the bud.
Chris P: given these rules can't we try to limit talk to instruments and music, not people? I mean sure, if Anthony McGill were to leave the NYP for another orchestra, that's clarinet news and happens to involve a person not regular to this forum.
But to have a discussion about someone (David) who was part of this bboard for so many years......?
Omniclarinet314: first, I can't believe you're still here. Numerous people took issue with you bashing a clarinet vendor on now erased posts. To you, they're the problem, not you. You have to be one of the last people here to make this statement:
"If 4 good people “harass” you, you’re the problem"
And you'll probably claim ad hominem attacks against you. That's where the board's "it's hard to separate the two" comes into play when clarinet arguments are put forth that make no sense and focus needs to shift to the logic of those making such arguments.
But I don't want to redo that, and bboard mgmt can't want it either given that banter's erasure. I trust you won't be able to control yourself.
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Can we all stop this now? Can we not succumb to group dynamics because we had a bad day and (most of us at least) come here in anonymity, and gang up on someone?
Granted, David, it isn't your strong suit to turn the other cheek, but neither is it mine, and you shouldn't have to.
So can we just stop hurling hate in David's direction?
How's about that Paulus and Shuler adjustable barrel?
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Author: KenJarczyk
Date: 2025-11-14 07:17
David Blumberg is relevant. There, I said it.
Before anyone tosses rocks, how many followers do you have on a clarinet specific site? How many clarinetists have you helped out over the years?
I think the attacks may have more sinister motivation.
Ken Jarczyk
Woodwinds Specialist
Eb, C, Bb, A & Bass Clarinets
Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Baritone Saxophones
Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 11:04
There are numerous people, the majority, who agree with me about Ridenour clarinets. Your arguments are the ones that make no sense. I demonstrated to myself that your arguments are trash by comparing the Ridenour and the R13.
I had a lot of fun deleting 2 months worth of posts.
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-11-14 11:24
OmniClarinet314 wrote:
> There are numerous people, the majority, who agree with me
> about Ridenour clarinets. Your arguments are the ones that make
> no sense. I demonstrated to myself that your arguments are
> trash by comparing the Ridenour and the R13.
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> I had a lot of fun deleting 2 months worth of posts.
The majority of people HERE think YOU'RE the problem.
Ridenour AureA Bb clarinet
Ridenour Homage mouthpiece
Vandoren Optimum Silver ligature (plate 1)
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ATG System, Cordier Reed Trimmer, and A.L.E. Reed Balancer
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 11:28
Ridenour started this whole thing by making bad clarinets made in China. He should be sued for false advertising.
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Author: sarahkwatts
Date: 2025-11-14 14:02
The ICA gave Blumberg a temporary ban due to threats against members. This was extended to a permanent ban due to continued harassment. These included gun related images, personal threats and harassment via emails, and in person harassment at a clarinetfest.
I would like to state that it is not harassment against Mr Blumberg (as he suggests) to share his own words and actions with others.
Mr Blumberg’s behaviour was also deemed to be a serious threat towards Katherine Needleman to the point where peace orders were issued against him via legal proceedings.
Many people have been afraid of him, harassed and threatened. This is why the people he names in this thread took a stand.
Racism, misogyny, homophobia, to name but a few, are traits that the clarinet community does not need.
I hope this answers questions and also justifies the truth behind all of this. I feel the clarinet community is stronger when we work together against this type of behaviour. It also becomes a community that I want my students to feel safe in.
As you all know there is much evidence to back up what I am saying, and this was removed in a previous thread.
This is wholly relevant to clarinet in every way. It’s important we are open about these matters as it affects every player - especially marginalised communities.
Thank you for reading and greetings to you all,
Sarah Watts
sarahkwatts@yahoo.com
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2025-11-14 14:55
Sarah, you’re full of crap
You took a post that I wrote defending the former head of the European clarinet association which you were harassing quite badly and got hysterical about it.
I was kidding what I wrote - it was parody, but you took it serious. English can’t seem to understand the difference
On reflection - I should have been serious……. Cause you deserve it!!!!
Your vitriol with me is 100% (you admitted to a friend) about me posting g the recording from CASS of my performance there. Needlesmen is from me proving her wrong about the NYO2, Heinen from me telling her to go F herself when she was being nasty/vicious to me in a thread (because I defended Michele who she was calling senile), and P.Piercy from me not appreciating his caddiyness towards me behind my back.
Get a life
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2025-11-14 15:41
UPDATE from Oct. 29, 2025 (the following statement, in quotes, regarding David Blumberg's permanent revocation and ban was approved by the ICA)
"In 2024, the Board of the International Clarinet Association (ICA) determined, after reviewing submitted reports, that David Blumberg violated the ICA’s Policy Prohibiting Harassment and Discrimination. The Board voted to terminate his membership and bar him from ICA events through September 1, 2026. Following additional reports and further review by the Ethics Board, and in consultation with legal counsel, the ICA Board has made the revocation of Mr. Blumberg’s membership and prohibition from all ICA-sponsored activities permanent."
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My own statement:
Individuals may support the actions taken by the International Clarinet Association (“ICA”), or they may disagree with the final outcome. I will not engage in ongoing debate or respond to each specific contention regarding the outcome or personal comments made about me or the others listed above. The ICA, other complainants, and I have participated in an extensive, multi-year process culminating in this resolution, and all matters have been addressed through established procedures.
The International Clarinet Association (ICA) executed a permanent revocation of Mr. Blumberg’s membership and imposed a prohibition against his participation in all ICA-sponsored activities. This decision was based upon a series of complaints received by the organization, which included but were not limited to complaints made by those referenced in the initial post above. The disciplinary measures taken, including the publication of information regarding these actions, do not constitute harassment, libel, or slander. Rather, the ICA's actions represent a good-faith enforcement of its established procedures and standards intended to preserve the integrity and safety of its membership and sponsored events.
I express my appreciation to the International Clarinet Association (ICA) for their diligent and conscientious consideration of the complaints submitted.
Tom Piercy
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-11-14 16:28
David Blumberg is still relevant, which is to say his presence in the clarinet community is still there, despite there being those who oppose him, whether fairly or not, and those that don't.
Can we stop?
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OmniClarinet314:
These are undisputed facts as derived from your own now erased statements on this bboard:
You acquired a single Ridenour clarinet that you didn't like that you report nobody else trying. A rationale person takes what they think is a bad instrument to other competent players to see if they can reproduce their issues.
The fact that you report better success on a Buffet, even if other people had concurred that your specific Ridenour instrument was poor (and again, they didn't), and the fact that some people don't like Ridenour RCP clarinets as well (many people like them) is not, nor will it ever be justification to bash an entire company that produces many models and quantities of clarinets, just as it is unfair to bash an entire country (China) that produces many good products (electronics, apparel, toys and furniture, and yes, for the right price, clarinets.)
I strongly suspect most of what's wrong with the RCP clarinet was you, but even if I am dead wrong, not every instrument Buffet, Selmer, Yamaha, Backun or any other manufacturer produces is great.
The illogical way you approached this issue runs contrary to your attempts to make RCP suffer. Being quiet would be more productive as you are making (true or false) RCP look like the scapegoat of a player looking to assign blame for his inabilities on an instrument, and thru that single instrument on to a company.
If RCP was anywhere near as bad as you describe they would no longer be in business. Ridenour should not be sued for false advertising but you for libel.
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Interestingly enough, to tie these two themes together, I recall David Blumberg in posts past believing Ridenour someone who made strong instruments for his marketspace that his budding students could appreciate.
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-11-14 17:58
OmniClarinet314 wrote:
> Again with the idiotic claims about me. There is no way
> you’re not Ridenour.
Indulge me. What claims (not suspicions) did I make about you that weren't true, and therefore by definition impossible of being idiotic?
Did you have others play the instrument you claimed faulty?
Did you bash a company based on your experience with just one of its instruments or not?
I have no relationship, financial or otherwise with RCP products whatsoever. Someone from RCP would not, as I have, and repeatedly stated here, reveal their preference for their Buffet over their RCP instrument as I have. Look at my posts on this bboard to confirm this. In fact recent ones dealt with shopping for a Yamaha brand instrument.
Near infinite evidence on this bboard of my posts suggests it more likely that you work for an RCP competitor than me for RCP, not that I believe that true.
And yet this preference in no way implies that my specific, and RCP instruments in general aren't strong and in no way deserving of your condemnation of them.
Any claim about you that I made that wasn't your own testimony was phrased as my suspicion.
Go away OmniClarinet314; stay away.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-11-14 18:23
Hi David. It's great to see you post on this forum again. Your advice here in the past always seemed focused and very practical to me. I also recall the time a poster here expressed deep depression over their playing, and in reply you posted your contact info with an offer of consultation and teaching at no charge.
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 18:26
If there was something wrong with me and not the ridenour chinese clarinet, why didn’t my teacher help me? His exercises didn’t work. It’s 100% the clarinet.
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Author: Reese Oller
Date: 2025-11-14 21:20
God. I can't believe this is still going. You're so butthurt about having had what you deemed to be an inferior instrument that you've made it your life's mission to destroy a business-- but there's one problem. You're a one-man crusade, and an unsavory man at that. I am not the best clarinetist-- I consider myself rather mediocre, in fact. But I had great success on my "cheap" instruments. I have never tried Ridenour soprano clarinets, but I DO find it very easy to believe that you are the problem-- after all, you demonstrate the classic narcissistic behavior of blaming everything except you for your own failures.
Go on, buddy. Just once. I want you to say "I am not the most skilled clarinetist. Better equipment would not have put me from not even getting into All State to being the principal chair."
You're not going to say it.
Because you're a narcissist and a bitter, sad person.
Shut the **** up. No one here is going to give you the validation you crave.
And David, of course you're still relevant! Your advice has always served me well and you share your wealth of experience with the world of clarinet. That's good enough for me.
And... If you are indeed homophobic, or racist... I hope that you can change your mind. Though, I'd appreciate some transparency regarding that-- as I do fit into a fair few unfairly persecuted groups.
Thank you all for coming to my TED talk.
Reese Oller
Clarinet student (performance major at Millikin University)
I can play bass clarinet, Eb clarinet, BBb contra, alto saxophone, bassoon at a decent level, and flute in a pinch.
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 21:34
Okay, your opinion, mediocre clarinet player. I’m not going to even waste my time with you and your garbage takes.
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-11-14 21:36
OmniClarinet314 wrote:
> Again with the idiotic claims about me. There is no way
> you’re not Ridenour.
I talked with Ted. He doesn't know who SecondTry is - at least from memory.
Ridenour AureA Bb clarinet
Ridenour Homage mouthpiece
Vandoren Optimum Silver ligature (plate 1)
Vandoren Traditional #4 reeds
ATG System, Cordier Reed Trimmer, and A.L.E. Reed Balancer
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-11-14 21:41
I should know better. Talking with you is like a PhD arguing with a toddler. No matter how right the PhD is and how much evidence is presented, you still look like an idiot and the toddler will never get it.
Ridenour should sue you for libel and unsubstantiated claims from someone with a permanent chronic victim mentality.
Get help.
Ridenour AureA Bb clarinet
Ridenour Homage mouthpiece
Vandoren Optimum Silver ligature (plate 1)
Vandoren Traditional #4 reeds
ATG System, Cordier Reed Trimmer, and A.L.E. Reed Balancer
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-11-14 21:41
OmniClarinet314 wrote:
> I didn’t start it.
You most certainly did.
You're opening salvo, in the quintessential example of hypocrisy, sought to find fault with someone not recognizing (true of false though it may be in David's case) that when a group of people take issue with your ways, that time has come for self reflection, when you said:
'If 4 good people “harass” you, you’re the problem'
In erased just prior threads numerous people told you that your criticism of Ridenour Clarinet Products was not appropriate, and rather than stop, you continued.
Not another word OmniClarinet314 until, at the very least you start answering the questions posed of you here rather than offering your own questions.
Tom Ridenour, I understand, challenged you to put your money where you mouth is, your play on your instrument against him on his.
I'd like to reverse that a bit. Can I play the RCP clarinet you found fault with?
Don't answer that. Just stop. Go away.
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 21:46
There are many others who share the same views as mine online. There was a comment on poppiequartet’s ad on the ATG system that bashed on Ridenour clarinets before Ray Wyant deleted it.
It’ll be so embarrassing once I prove that I sound more like Harold Wright than him.
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 21:50
Good luck trying to sue me when the majority of people agree with me. XD. I wasn’t even the first to think that Ridenour clarinets suck. I learned from the Clarinet subreddit.
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-11-14 21:55
I have had differences of opinion on this board years ago with Mr. Blumberg.
We agreed to disagree. We debated civilly. Nobody threatened anybody.
In future discussions sometimes I felt the same as him, sometimes I didn't.
Maybe he was right and me wrong.
I found him a pleasure to deal with compared to OmniClarinet314. Mr. Blumberg is a documented talented professional and teacher, and doesn't, if he's going to slam things, do so irrationally or with anonymity.
David: I wish you a life free from unfair attack, as I do the strength to sometimes turn the other cheek (I'll bet you do) despite being the recipient of unfairness.
I don't know what happened, but please, please, don't even joke with metaphors or pictures (I only hear second hand, it may not be truth) that even suggest violence. The world's in too tenuous a state for anyone to be transmitting such visuals to anyone but friends who they are certain will understand the non-violent tone of such things.
I wish you inner peace.
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-11-14 22:03
OmniClarinet314 wrote:
> There are many others who share the same views as mine online.
And there are many others that don't.
And there are no others that can concur issues with your sole, one, clarinet from RCP that you seek to bash an entire company for.
No person in their right might draws conclusions about an instrument being the problem, beyond the obvious busted spring, without concurrence from a trusted source. The fact that you failed to do this suggests to me the same lack of executive decision making function that leads you to bash RCP.
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> It’ll be so embarrassing once I prove that I sound more like
> Harold Wright than him.
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Even if this is true, and I'd bet it isn't, this doesn't mean your RCP clarinet or the entire company is to blame. I'm sorry you don't get that.
Link us the video of said proof. Until then stop talking and let your play do the talk.
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-11-14 22:06
OmniClarinet314 wrote:
> There are many others who share the same views as mine online.
> There was a comment on poppiequartet’s ad on the ATG system
> that bashed on Ridenour clarinets before Ray Wyant deleted it.
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> It’ll be so embarrassing once I prove that I sound more like
> Harold Wright than him.
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> Post Edited (2025-11-14 21:51)
What year will you do that?
I heard about that comment. Ted told me exactly what happened with a severely abused bass clarinet that was sent to them.
You're so impressionable and you can't think that you could be wrong (or that you suck).
I look forward to your video (that you'll probably claim is you but will also be from someone anonymous and you'll try to take credit for it).
No name = no credibility, which happens a LOT on Reddit.
Ridenour AureA Bb clarinet
Ridenour Homage mouthpiece
Vandoren Optimum Silver ligature (plate 1)
Vandoren Traditional #4 reeds
ATG System, Cordier Reed Trimmer, and A.L.E. Reed Balancer
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 22:07
I know others had the same problems with his clarinets. That’s why they return them. I hear about this all the time. Again, I have already explained that the clarinet was the problem.
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 22:09
David H. Kinder wrote:
> OmniClarinet314 wrote:
>
> > There are many others who share the same views as mine
> online.
> > There was a comment on poppiequartet’s ad on the ATG system
> > that bashed on Ridenour clarinets before Ray Wyant deleted
> it.
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> >
> > It’ll be so embarrassing once I prove that I sound more
> like
> > Harold Wright than him.
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> > Post Edited (2025-11-14 21:51)
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> What year will you do that?
>
> I heard about that comment. Ted told me exactly what happened
> with a severely abused bass clarinet that was sent to them.
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> You're so impressionable and you can't think that you could be
> wrong (or that you suck).
>
> I look forward to your video (that you'll probably claim is you
> but will also be from someone anonymous and you'll try to take
> credit for it).
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> No name = no credibility, which happens a LOT on Reddit.
>
Even my severely depressed 12th grade self knew that it was the clarinet and not me and I've already considered the possibility that I sucked which isn't true. I sound a lot better on the R13. Cry more about it.
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-11-14 22:17
And yet, you kept it despite them being sent out on a trial basis.
Oh wait - I think it was your parents that bought it, so it might not have been your call?
Your therapist will appreciate it when you bring the blame back to mommy and daddy.
Ridenour AureA Bb clarinet
Ridenour Homage mouthpiece
Vandoren Optimum Silver ligature (plate 1)
Vandoren Traditional #4 reeds
ATG System, Cordier Reed Trimmer, and A.L.E. Reed Balancer
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 22:18
Therapy is not needed at all. I'm perfectly fine unlike you. Too bad I didn't know that the Ridenour clarinet was garbage. I wasted my time trying to improve on it.
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-11-14 22:22
OmniClarinet314 wrote:
> Therapy is not needed at all. I'm perfectly fine unlike you.
> Too bad I didn't know that the Ridenour clarinet was garbage. I
> wasted my time trying to improve on it.
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> Post Edited (2025-11-14 22:19)
You're right - I keep responding and feeding the troll, but at least I recognize it.
Ridenour AureA Bb clarinet
Ridenour Homage mouthpiece
Vandoren Optimum Silver ligature (plate 1)
Vandoren Traditional #4 reeds
ATG System, Cordier Reed Trimmer, and A.L.E. Reed Balancer
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-11-14 23:14
He has authority, credibility, and experience to do so.
Where's yours?
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Ridenour Homage mouthpiece
Vandoren Optimum Silver ligature (plate 1)
Vandoren Traditional #4 reeds
ATG System, Cordier Reed Trimmer, and A.L.E. Reed Balancer
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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2025-11-14 23:22
OmniClarinet314 wrote:
> Ridenour trashes on other brands. I'm doing the same to him.
Tom and Ted Ridenour not only don't "trash" other brands (saying why they think their instruments have positive attributes others don't is not trashing other brands) but....
....wait for it
....haven't develop their assessment, however negative you see it, as a result of one person (you) playing one instrument from a manufacturer. that sought out absolutely no other player to concur or refute your findings.
Tom has a lifetime of noting the attributes and limitations of different brands of clarinets. You have the story of a novice at the time he made such evaluations. You have found people who support your thesis on RCP clarinets. Plenty exist that contradict it.
And that you, one player, plays better on one other make of instrument (and that's even assuming you can be trusted with your statement) does not alone make the clarinet you disliked bad, nor does that instrument's failure, even if true, fairly translate to the entire company, anymore than, were you Martin Frost essque on your Buffet, would that alone make Buffet stellar.
We do not draw hateful conclusions on a test sample of one. You have an anecdote: a story. Nothing more, that even if was whole heartedly concurred does not fairly allow you to bash an entire brand.
By your standard every brand is absolutely mediocre because every one of the manufactures behind a brand of clarinets has sold instruments that weren't the pick of the litter.
Grow up. Shut up.
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Author: OmniClarinet314
Date: 2025-11-14 23:46
With all of his experience, his brand is mediocre compared to Buffet, Selmer, Backun, etc. Maybe he has no idea what he is doing.
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Author: David H. Kinder
Date: 2025-11-15 00:26
David Blumberg also booted your *** from his group and you think everyone else is the problem.
I'm done. And what I mean is that I'm logging out and leaving.
This old software prevents blocking and banning IPs and other usernames from creating multiple profiles that spoil a forum from the focused discussions for the community.
Mark Charette encourages us to ignore the trolls, but it's up to the tech and the moderators to help foster focused discussions.
I don't blame the moderators. I blame the interface. It hasn't changed since the URL was Sneazy.org (before 2000).
Until it gets fixed, trolls can, will, and do take over and derail threads from the focused topics with their own perceived self-importance and non-existent protestations and proclamations of their expertise.
Ridenour AureA Bb clarinet
Ridenour Homage mouthpiece
Vandoren Optimum Silver ligature (plate 1)
Vandoren Traditional #4 reeds
ATG System, Cordier Reed Trimmer, and A.L.E. Reed Balancer
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Author: Tom Ridenour
Date: 2025-11-15 00:27
This is the first time anyone from Ridenour Clarinet Products, this is Ted, has posted here in many years.
Wasn't this thread about David Blumberg? How did our clarinets become the primary topic?
As to Tom's credibility;
https://www.rclarinetproducts.com/ed-guide-to-the-clarinet
"Tom Ridenour's Educator's Guide to the Clarinet is a clarinet pedagogy for all ages. The Guide contains a wealth of information and handy tips on all aspects of playing and teaching the clarinet. There are tremendous nuggets of information for performers and teachers at all levels. I highly recommend it for anyone who loves the clarinet and wants to get better.
Prof. Howard Klug, Prof. of Clarinet, Indiana University School of Music"
"Finally, a comprehensive book that addresses every aspect of clarinet pedagogy, written by a master teacher, technician, acoustician, mouthpiece craftsman, and most importantly, accomplished musician.
Ricardo Morales, Principal Clarinet, Philadelphia Orchestra"
"I am writing you to congratulate you on your fantastic book, The Educator’s Guide to the Clarinet. It has enriched my teaching greatly, especially the parts about double lip playing. I alternatively use double lip since two years now… I think it has given my playing more resonance. I also think that double lip has a big pedagogic value, keeping students from using too much pressure with the lower lip. I give my students topics from your books, and it is a good feeling to know, that there are people so far away who not only play and teach, but also think about clarinet a lot.
Reinhard Wieser, Principal Clarinet, Vienna Symphony Orchestra"
Eddie Daniels gave us an endorsement for the ATG system.
Yes I know we paid for all of them to say these things. That's what you'll say. It's all a big conspiracy. A small clarinet company that makes crappy clarinets has the money to buy endorsements from some of the finest clarinetists in the world. We paid for exactly none of these comments, we've never paid for an endorsement, but I'm sure you'll be certain all of them were paid and in your own mind you'll have proof.
The University of North Texas has purchased 10 or 12, can't recall, of our supposedly junk Low C Bass's. Half a dozen or so students who've used them at UNT have since bought one for themselves. Conservatively pro quality players have used our bass, soprano clarinets as well, on 25 Broadway tours. The real number is probably closer to 50 but I don't keep score so lets go with 25.
The clarinetist who many would consider to be finest classical clarinetist alive today purchased, he paid like anyone else would, one of our C clarinets years ago and still refers students/friends to us with the most recent being two or three months ago.
Can you let us know your accomplishments in music? Create any products as effective as the ATG system? Ever write a complete pedagogy of the clarinet? Ever had players like Ricardo Morales and Reinhardt Weiser endorse your work? Ever design a full line of clarinets for one of the great French makers? Tom did all of those things. Have you accomplished even 1% of what he has in music? That's all rhetorical as everyone knows the answer is no. Yet you seem to spend all your time bashing us because you failed to make All State Band in Texas. Plenty of other kids made All State and even won international young artist competitions (OU Clarinet Symposium) playing the same clarinet you had. Two students from Marcus HS finished 2nd and 3rd I believe at the ICA's young artist competition (2014? 2015?) that year or the next both playing on the clarinet you blame for all your problems.
Do you not have anything better to do than hijack threads and bad mouth us? I'm not complaining. It makes our detractors look deranged. At this point I honestly feel bad for you.
Ridenour Clarinet Products,
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sales@ridenourclarinetproducts.com
Post Edited (2025-11-15 00:29)
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