Klarinet Archive - Posting 000817.txt from 1998/01

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: why so much?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:25:52 -0500

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip wrote:

> I bought a box of reeds today for like $22.40. Ever since I started
> playing the clarinet I have been buying reeds at like $20 or more a box.
> Why do they cost so much?

Well part of it is that the finer reeds are often imported, so that's part
of the cost...and of course, it's really hard to find anything good
inexpensively...if we could, I'd being playing a Prestige Low C
bass instead of the lousy LeBlanc that I have now...

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Shouryu Nohe
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