Klarinet Archive - Posting 001461.txt from 1998/05

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Contrabass Price Question
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 19:19:30 -0400

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>

>At 04:18 PM 5/29/98 -0400, Mark Charette wrote:----
>>From: Maestro645@-----.com>
>>>Someone once told me that a Rosewood Selmer Contrabass Clarinet with Low
C
>>>cost $35,000 - to which I pass out, thinking "Oh my Gosh! That's a 1/3
of
>>a
>>>house!!!"
>>
>>And about 1/3 the price of a good violin, and half the price of a very
good
>>piano, and about equal to the price of a good piano.
>>----
>For that kind of money, about a Baldwin 7' grand, I would think, or a 9'
>with a VERY good discount, which would qualify as a GREAT piano!

Harrumph, harrumph. A Baldwin? A Baldwin !?! A Furster maybe, but not a
Baldwin!

<grin - we've got enough problems with defining great clarinets &
clarinetists - let's not drag pianos into it>

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Mark Charette, Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
charette@-----.org

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