Klarinet Archive - Posting 000825.txt from 1998/04

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Local independent music stores
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:06:53 -0400

>I don't think we stock enough mouthpieces myself. But take a quick peek at
>your WW & BW catalog and do a quick figuring of how much it would cost to
>stock only 2 or 3 each (in several popular facings, of course) of each of
>the ones listed, and then assume you are likely to be sitting on most them

Admittedly, even Ash, Manny's, and Baltimore's, all on West 48th here, do
not stock mouthpieces by EVERYONE. Neither, it appears, to some catalogue
dealers. I just got the Giardinelli catalogue, which reminds me of old
Sears catalogues (everything but riding tractors), and there are
mouthpieces they do NOT carry.

Some of the repair shops appear to carry used mouthpieces as well as stuff
like one of Ken Peplowski's old Buffets (please, God, let me get my NY
State tax refund real fast and let that horn still be there!). I never
knew Pomarico made a Stanley Drucker-model wood mouthpiece, but it appears
they did.

Ken

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