Tom Ridenour’s hand finishing of each clarinet provides benefits in the performance of each individual clarinet as well as overall consistency. The dividends in actual performance include a virtually seamless response and matching of tone colour and resonance throughout the full range of the clarinet.

The Lyrique's efficient, dependable response permits the player to spend less energy on controlling the clarinet and more energy concentrating on expressive phrasing and musicality.

The Lyrique 576b is one of the best tuning Bb clarinets you can buy at any price, correcting many traditional tuning flaws found in other brands, –– and doing so without additional mechanism. For example, the terribly flat low F and sharp right hand clarion C and D are things of the past.