Klarinet Archive - Posting 000524.txt from 1997/02

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Selling my clarinet...need suggestions
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 11:38:11 -0500

Try to ask $1400. That is more of a fair price for knowledgable
clarinetists, and since it is a pro horn- that's who you are marketing. Not
the players who spend $500 for plastic(yuk) at the local retail store.

At 11:52 PM 2/14/97 -0500, Patrick Kwan wrote:
>To be quite honest, the price IS too high for a used clarinetto. A new
>Leblanc runs for around $1800 last time I checked. Maybe, since I think you
>said you're around NYC, post an ad at the student bulletin board at LaGuardia
>HS of the Arts. They always have someone looking for used professional
>instruments especially clarinet. Good luck! A little less than $1600 would be
>better, since the Buffet R-13 runs for around $1500. I'm sure for the people
>who are looking for used instruments is because they don't have enough to buy
>a new one. Once again good luck.
>
> ~~Patrick
>Kwan
>
>
David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
Adjunct Woodwind Instructor Univ. of Penn,. Bryn Mawr College
Foundation of Arts and Musical Excellence Summer Music Festival (FAME)