Klarinet Archive - Posting 000636.txt from 1999/02

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Post-Factory adjustment
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:53:24 -0500

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Ken Wolman wrote:
> My sticker shock was asking out of curiosity in a repair shop in NYC how
> much the man wanted for the used Selmer English horn. Not that I play
> double-reeds, but for the right price I'd learn: the English horn
> produces a sound directly from Heaven. Beautiful instrument, leather
> pochette case in good shape, but all the same SOMEone had used it. The
> answer: $2,200. Yes, used. Rhetorical question: what kind of clarinet
> can you get NEW at street price for that kind of money?
>
> Maybe the English horn came with 10 free lessons thrown in from Thomas
> Stacy, but I doubt it.

Pretty good price.....who was selling it?

RG
Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director - Concert Band, Symphonic Winds & Titan Band
Advisor - Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University

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