Klarinet Archive - Posting 000360.txt from 1997/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Student Level Clarinets
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:09:00 -0500

At 06:29 PM 12/7/97 -0600, Roger Garrett wrote:
>I was fortunate in that both my parents were music educators and when I
>left the ivory palace of U. of Michigan, I was prepared for the twenty
>school owned instruments that all needed overhauls at the school at which
>I worked. In fact, one three valve baritone was absolutely flat as a
>pancake....someone had run over it with a car and just put it back in the
>bins.....no one held him responsible.

And that is exactly the problem! Students who use school instruments MUST
be held responsible for damage, or else every manner of careless damage
will occur. Unfortunately, the irresponsible ones seldom treat their own
property any better, so you can't use that as as example of how to treat
school property. So hitting them in the pocketbook after the fact may be
the only way to get the lesson across. Of course, if they learn too
quickly, it will cost me business!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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