Klarinet Archive - Posting 000551.txt from 1999/02

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: new math
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:19:03 -0500

David Blumberg wrote:
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> 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.
>
> ====================================================================
>
> 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/

Dave,

I was stating a hypothetical figure on what it might cost Leblanc per
hour. We're talking total expenses, machines, lights, insurance and
labor costs that would make shop time worth that much to them. I was not
suggesting that the employee was making that much. If the actual people
who make the instruments were getting this kind of wage, non of us would
be able to afford an instrument.

I'm not a bean counter. I have no idea what a large company spends for
facilities, advertising, custom made machines, materials, etc, etc, etc.

I probably should never have mentioned any of this hypothetical stuff to
make a point. I should have figured that someone would take it all literally.

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