Klarinet Archive - Posting 000415.txt from 1996/06

From: "Fogle, Bill" <bill.fogle@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: New York again
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:51:51 -0400

Tom wrote about a used nstrument shop near Sam Ash:

>I neglected to mention it earlier because I have little information.
Perhaps
>someone familiar with NY can help me out:
>
>There is a shop a couple of blocks uptown of Times Square that sells used
>instruments which is one of my favorite places to visit while in the city.
> It's on the third floor corner of the same street as Sam Ash and 5th(?)
>avenue.
>
>They have many unusual instruments including: bass and contra bass recorders,
>serpents, sacbutts. They, also, have a few antique clarinets in various
>pitches and systems. I saw a bass saxophone for the first time in this shop.
> The list goes on and on. Anyone out there know the shop I speak of?

Yes! I was there 2 years ago and they had this box of Benny Goodman era junk.
I was on a shopping hunt for an Albert system clarinet (why? what gets into
my head?) but left the place wanting to buy one of the orphaned horns I saw
stacked up in there. They have what appears to be a repair area right inside
the shop which gives one the feeling restorations could be made while you
wait, like getting a pair of eyeglasses. ---Bill Fogle.

   
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