About the model Hardrubber C-clarinet Designed to provide top professional performance features by Tom Ridenour, the C clarinet will exceed all that you hoped a C clarinet could ever be--and do so without your piggy bank fearing for its life. The experience of playing the Lyrique C clarinet dispels all the past myths about clarinets pitched in C. The tone is never thin or strident and the scale never "wacky". Rather, the Lyrique C is characterized by a warm, sweet tone that is closer to the human voice than perhaps any other wind instrument. Even the high notes retain a beautifully round, sweet quality at all dynamic levels. The Lyrique also has perhaps the most even, efficient blowing resistance of any clarinet, giving the player the feeling that the clarinet has all but vanished and one is simply singing the music without any instrumental medium. The scale of the Lyrique C is not only acceptable, but actually superior to the vast majority of professional Bb clarinets and careful, detailed custom tuning by Lyrique designer, Tom Ridenour