YOUR SOUND HAS COLOR
MOST
CLARINETISTS
NEVER FIND OUT
WHICH ONE
Stop shopping by brand. Start shopping by how you play- which starts with a conversation. In 15 free minutes, Lisa uses the Color-Ring™ Sound Profile Consultation with Lisa, and walk away with a $100 trial credit towards a three-instrument home trial, plus your ownColor-Ring™ Sound Profile Guide (PDF) to keep.
THE COLOR-RING™ SYSTEM
A SMARTER WAY TO FIND YOUR INSTRUMENT
Every serious clarinetist has a unique sound profile. It’s shaped by how you breathe, how your embouchure works, your natural and earned abilities, and what kind of sound you’re chasing. The problem is that most instrument shopping ignores all of that entirely.
The Color-Ring™ System changes that. Developed by Lisa Canning over decades of professional performance and teaching, it’s a structured method for reading a player’s profile and matching it against the acoustic and mechanical characteristics of specific instruments; across brands, across price points, across styles of play. It can help you choose what’s right for you.
It doesn’t start with “What’s your budget?” It starts with you: how you play, what you’re missing, and where you want to go. The instrument recommendation comes last, and when it does, it’s specific.
It starts with how you play, what you’re missing, and where you want to go.
MEET LISA
THE CLARINETIST WHO FITS MUSICIANS TO THEIR SOUND
Inc. Female 5000
Breakthrough Culture Award 2025
America’s Most Loved Companies
CO-100 Honoree Education 2.0 Award: Innovation in Education
MEET LISA
THE CLARINETIST WHO FITS MUSICIANS TO THEIR SOUND
She’s been recognized as an Inc. Female 500 founder, named a CO-100 Honoree by the US Chamber of Commerce, and featured among America’s Most Loved Companies to Work For.
Lisa is a professional clarinetist, educator, and founder of the Working Musicians Academy. She’s spent decades performing, teaching, and most relevantly to you; helping serious musicians find instruments that actually fit the way they play. There isn’t a brand she has not sold either, despite now only carrying Buffet-Crampon and her own line SeriO.
The Color-Ring™ System is her own development: a structured, repeatable way of reading a player’s profile and matching it to an instrument’s acoustic characteristics. It’s the same method she uses with Working Musicians Academy students to teach them how to fit clients. It works because it starts with the player, not the product.
Her recommendation on your call will be based entirely on what the Color-Ring™ profile says, not the brands she carries or what she currently has in stock.
She’s been recognized as an Inc. Female 500 founder, named a CO-100 Honoree by the US Chamber of Commerce, and featured among America’s Most Loved Companies to Work For.
FIND THE CLARINET THAT FITS YOU BETTER
Most players overpay for the wrong clarinet. This free guide shows you exactly what to look for and what to avoid.
WHAT MUSICIANS SAY
ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE USING THE COLOR-RING™ SYSTEM
“Wonderful experience! Lisa made everything easy and made sure my daughter got her new instrument! So thankful! Definitely recommend y’all buying working with her!”
– Maggie Buerkle
– Douglas Lewis
– Michael McCann