Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 1998/06

From: Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Contrabass Price Question
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:11:32 -0400

At 12:10 PM 5/29/98 EDT, you wrote:
>I don't recall if this came through the system or not, so I will repost it.
>If it came through and I failed to notice, I apologize. Anyhow....
>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!!!" What is the price on one of those things. If it is not that bad,

Maybe in some places..... :-)

Compare it to a Heckel bassoon ($30-40K new), or a heckelphone (around
$30K), or a contrabasse ad anche (around $30K new), or a contrabassoon
(around $20K - 60K or higher). Really quite a bargain ;-)

Enjoy!

Grant

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