Klarinet Archive - Posting 001240.txt from 1998/07

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Horn
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 23:08:42 -0400

P: Great story! It's my son's vision of himself sometime in the future
- he's a (shudder) trumpet player, sometimes. Dan, are you sure you're
in the right business? Stephen King's got nothin' on you!
Paulette

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:29:52 EDT "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu"
<leeson@-----.edu> writes:
>> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.68
>> Subj: RE: [kl] Basset Horn
>
>>
>> Ok folks,
>>
>> I have finally made up my mind to sell my mint with no problems
>Leblanc
>> Basset Horn which was worked on by both Bill Brannen and Francois
>Kloc.
>> It initally had a low c problem, but Francois made it play
>great......and
>> it does. However, despite Dan Leeson's terrific advice regarding
>having
>> two bassets (I also have a Buffet basset horn), I find I must sell
>the
>> thing to help finance a toy I have been searching for for a very
>long
>> time: a 1941 Chevrolet Special Deluxe 2 Door, 6 passenger, all
>original
>> in mint condition classic automobile (please.....don't ask......my
>wife
>> tells me it is because I am almost 40......I don't believe it for a
>> second).
>
>And some day, in about 15years when your 1941 Chevrolet Special
>Deluxe 2-Door 6-passenger all original mint condition classic
>automobile is rusty and has two broken axles, you will be called
>by the conductor of the Chicago Symphony begging you to rent them
>your two magnificent instruments, and you will say, "Sorry. I
>made a bad mistake when I sold one of them."
>
>And the conductor of the Chicago Symphony will say, "You are indeed
>a rotten person!"
>
>And you'll be sorry because your wife will have left you for a short,
>snub nosed man who himself has two basset horns and with whom she
>will lead a magnificent life enriched by her new husband. And you
>will be alone in a dark room, shades drawn, coughing, a bottle of
>cheap whiskey by your side, feverish, unable to count in 3/4 time,
>getting only an occasional Polka job for $8 and all the sauerkraut
>you can eat. A big dog will steal your shoes. And you will
>remember as you dream in a terrible drunken state what you might
>have had if you had kept your second basset horn instead of
>trading in this treasure for a bauble.
>
>Oh, you wicked, wicked man.
>
>
>
>>
>> So.....if anyone is interested in the horn, please email me
>privately and
>> I will be happy to set something up.
>>
>> Roger Garrett
>> IWU
>>
>>
>>
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