Gauging the mouthpiece facing tip: precision hand measuring insures technical excellence in each mouthpiece.
Hand facing the mouthpiece curve and truing the flat table for a super "reed friendly" facing. Beyond that, the subtlety of finishing achieves that famous ease and dependability of response and the beautiful balance of cushioned freedom and resistance for which Ridenour Artist Mouthpieces are famous.
In addition to voicing and finishing mouthpieces to a high standard, Ridenour Artist mouthpiece bores are hand reamed and finished with special methods and processes that create a free and even response, but with a tone with a beautiful balance of overtones. Rest assured, when you purchase a Ridenour Artist mouthpiece you get a mouthpiece that has had the highest level of craftsmanship applied to its every aspect. What other "makers" stamp and ship we regard as simply crude and unfinished. We begin working on mouthpieces where they leave off (if they do any work at all on them). The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. All we ask is to give Ridenour Arist Mouthpieces the "taste test" to hear and feel the difference that real craftsmanship can make.
Hand measuring the facing in as many as 16 different locations insures precision and consistency not acheivable by manufacturing processes
Detailed play testing is the "proof in the pudding" insuring artistic satisfaction as well as technical correctness.
Ridenour Mid-Range Saxophone Mouthpieces
Hear Tom Ridenour play his mouthpiece
and Bb clarinet
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