Klarinet Archive - Posting 000398.txt from 1995/10

From: Lorne Buick <mcheramy@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: IRS and the clarinet world
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:43:35 -0400

>"Well, sir, I've been looking over the submissions of America's
>musicians. I'm speaking about professional musicians, of course, and
>I notice that every one of them deducts the cost of their musical
>instruments over a ten year period. So if a clarinet costs $2,000,
>then the owner (who plays clarinet with the Ellis Island Opera Company)
>depreciates that instrument to the tune of $200 a year for 10 years.
>Now when that person finishes depreciating the instrument, he or she
>will often continue to play it for many additional years, though there
>are some people who will simply throw the instrument away and buy a
>new one, thus starting the depreciation process all over again. I
>think that it is called "blow out" but I am not sure because no one
>can tell me what that is and I'm beginning to think no one understands
>it in any case."
>
>"Stick to the point, please. Talk about the instrument, not about
>blow-out. I think it is called that because you blow out when you
>play the clarinet, not blow in. Get on with it!"
>

Conversely, if a musical instrument dealer convinces a clarinetist to
replace his ten-year-old clarinet, which plays perfectly well, on the
grounds that it's "blown-out", this is what we call a "suck-in".

Am I right? ;-)

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