Klarinet Archive - Posting 000526.txt from 1998/11

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Is this bass clarinet a rip-off?
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:42:46 -0500

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Jack Kissinger wrote:
> Roger Garrett sold a Linton bass on eBay awhile back. I don't remember
> what he got for it but it has to have been less than half the starting
> bid on this one. As I recall, Roger's had sterling silver keys (I don't
> know about the bell or neck).

The horn sold for $700 or so, and it was a wonderful, WOODEN bass
clarinet. It had silver keys - and the cleanup on that horn was a real
job, let me tell you - as was the repad and, of course, the mouthpiece
reface.

> probably moonlighting workers from the other factories. Malerne's factory was in
> the same district outside Paris as Buffet, Selmer and others.

The horn played very much like the older, short Buffets.

Both the buyer and the seller (me!) were very pleased with the horn. My
new Buffet is good enough I no longer felt the need to keep a spare
"short" bass around, and the buyer had been playing on an old (but good)
Leblanc - she likes this much better.

Roger Garrett
IWU

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