Klarinet Archive - Posting 000688.txt from 1998/12

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] Bok book
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 23:07:19 -0500

In what country is the book available? Surely someone on this list can
pick it up for you in a store and snail mail it....

Paulette

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:28:30 -0500 "Frederick S. Sterns"
<fssterns@-----.com> writes:
>>Can anyone tell me how to obtain (in the US) Henri Bok's "New
>>Techniques for the Bass Clarinet" . Usual sources (amazon, etc.)
>>fail me.
>>
>>
>>Mark Thiel
>>thielm@-----.com
>
>...for the record...I made an extensive effort to get Henri's book
>about
>six months ago, contacted several jobbers, including the distributor
>that
>Henri said represented him in the States. All this to no avail!
>
>At one point the "special order" person for the latter [I'd have to
>look
>back to get the exact name] gave every indication that the book could
>be
>obtained from the French publisher, but she never got back to me.
>Several
>follow up phone calls likewise produced nothing...not even an
>acknowledgement. After leaving three voice mail messages without a
>return
>call I wrote that source off.
>
>I wrote Henri again, and he replied he was disappointed at the failure
>of
>his US distributor to deliver...but nothing more. I had asked
>specifically
>if there was a way of getting the pub directly!
>
>Having spent several hours without success I figured I had invested
>enough
>time and gave up the project.
>
>Hopefully you have better luck. Fred Sterns
>
>
>
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