Klarinet Archive - Posting 000975.txt from 1998/01

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Value of used mpcs [was Re: Price of Selmer HS* bass mouthpiece]
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 20:05:44 -0500

Wow, tha's one and a half times what you paid! I'd take it before Roger
realizes and changes his mind!!! :)

Roger Garrett wrote:
>
> Well, if you want to sell the Kasper to me for $25, I'll pay the shipping.
>
> ;)
>
> Roger Garrett
> IWU
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Mitch Bassman wrote:
>
> > Responding to Jacqueline Eastman's question about a fair price for a used
> > Selmer bass clarinet mouthpiece, Roger Garrett wrote:
> >
> > >The C* sells for $90-100 at the discount houses......a used (thrice used?)
> > >HS* should sell for $40-80 I would think. Just my opinion tho....no
> > >proof!
> >
> > I'm curious about the value of used "designer" mouthpieces. I have a
> > Chedeville bass clarinet mouthpiece. It plays like a dream -- a really
> > *good* dream -- the kind of dream from which we all hate to awaken -- you
> > know what I mean -- I know you do. (Where was I? Oh, yes.) I cannot recall
> > where or when I got it or how much I paid for it. (Hmm, I do sound somewhat
> > like a politician in that last sentence, don't I?) It is in excellent
> > condition. Can anyone hazard a guess as to its current value? -- if I were
> > ever foolish enough to part with it..
> >
> > I have a clarinetist colleague who drools whenever he thinks of my bass
> > mouthpiece.
> >
> > (Strangely, he doesn't drool as much over my [Cicero] Kaspar B-flat
> > mouthpiece, which I do recall ordering directly from Frank Kaspar somewhere
> > around 1967 for US$16.50. I still have the signed postcard that he mailed
> > me when I wrote him a letter asking the price and the cancelled check with
> > his signature on the back.)
> >
> > Mitch Bassman
> > Burke, Virginia, USA
> >
> >

   
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