Klarinet Archive - Posting 000548.txt from 1999/02

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: new math
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:19:00 -0500

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someone else wrote:
Let's just assume that shop time at Buffet or Leblanc here in the US
adds up to $100 per/hr./per skilled person doing the final regulations
on newly arrived instruments from France. Let's also assume,
hypothetically, that each company spends an additional hour on average
to further fine tune and regulate these instruments beyond what they are
now spending. Let's further propose, hypothetically, that their schedule
includes ten instruments per day. That is $1,000 per day, times five
days a week, times four weeks per month, or $20,000 less profit per
month for the companies.
To the buyer, the price increase would be somewhere around $200 to $300
more added onto their buying price.
Now lets assume that at present, only one out of five complains to the
factory and wishes to have additional work done and all other complaints
are fielded in house by the retail or discount company that sold the
instrument to the customer. If the factory only has to spend 20% more to
satisfy unhappy customers they're still way ahead.

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I do not think that any Craftsmen on earth make $1000 per day. Does not
happen. Maybe $65-85,000 yr, but not $1000 daily.
Does anyone in the Clarinet business (including Stoltzman) make $20,000 a
month, every month of the year? I doubt it.

David Blumberg - My Tempo Accompaniments for Woodwind Players (100+ pieces,
Demos)
reedman@-----.com
http://www.sneezy.org/david_blumberg/
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