Klarinet Archive - Posting 001499.txt from 1998/05

From: "Benjamin A. Maas" <bmaas@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Contrabass Price Question
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 01:58:30 -0400

>>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.

Or, in my terms, the cost of a good remote rig for recording, the cost of a
single Nagra Digital Tape Deck, 2/3 of a Sonic Solutions Digital Editing
Workstation...

We all have our ways of measuring huge costs. Oh Well.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Clarinetist and Digital Recording Engineer
Student, University of Southern California
Executive Director, Digital Renaissance Consort
bmaas@-----.net
bmaas@-----.edu

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