Klarinet Archive - Posting 000483.txt from 1998/06

From: jisa@-----.com (Alexis)
Subj: Re: [kl] Gvt Clarinets - where they go to retire
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:31:36 -0400

>on 6/12/98 9:21 AM, Bill Hausmann wrote:
>>This must be a change in policy. They used to sell off the instruments,
>>just like they sell old desks, computers, etc., that are no longer needed.
>>One of my band director customers used to get quite a lot of instruments
>>for his school that way.
David wrote:
>Around here, instruments from the military bands get sold, but only to=20
>non-profits (school systems, mostly) who have to have the proper=20
>government paperwork to be eligible to buy them. Occasionally, astute=20
>band directors will trade this merchandise to a local music store for=20
>something they can actually use.
Our school has gotten some outstanding deals from Army surplus: eefers that=
=20
we desperately needed at 1/3 the price that we could find them=20
elsewhere...contras...a sousaphone. Pretty nifty system.

Alexis

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"After silence, that which comes closest to expressing=20
the inexpressible is music."=20
=97Aldous Huxley

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