Klarinet Archive - Posting 000802.txt from 1998/06

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] mail order repairs?
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:19:31 -0400

At 07:55 AM 6/24/98 -0700, you wrote:
>$300 would pay for a full overhaul on a professional instrument. A Signet
>is not worth this kind of treatment ($300 is more than any used Signet is
>worth in my opinion). Surely there is someone in Portland or Eugene who
>would do a basic repad for much less. Too bad Roger Garrett is still off
>the list as he might know.

I don't know if prices in the Pacific NW are comparable to those in central
Ohio, but the latter is where I had my Centered Tone gone over last
December. New pads, key adjustments and polishing, grand total of $138.00.
I EXPECTED to pay about $300. I gather than even in New York, $300 is
about what you could expect to pay for a complete strip-down and service of
a horn that had been laying in Auntie Em's closet for 60 years before it
was dropped in the path of a subway:-).

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

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