Klarinet Archive - Posting 000078.txt from 1996/06

From: Gary Van Cott <mccmis@-----.COM>
Subj:
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:22:11 -0400

Fred (fsheim@-----.com) wrote:

> My folks paid $188 for my R13 in December 1963- I paid $500 for my R13A in
> 1977!- both new! How times have changed! Got the Bb at Silver and Horland
> in lower Manhattan and the A at Manny's in Manhattan.
>
Your parents must have been good shoppers. Wasn't the list price of
professional clarinets about $400 in the mid-1960s? And discounts
were much harder to come by then.

Gary Van Cott
Las Vegas, NV
mccmis@-----.com

   
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