Klarinet Archive - Posting 000650.txt from 1999/02

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] post-factory adjustment
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:53:38 -0500

LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:

> > > This is just nonesense. Professional clarinets ARE cheap. VERY CHEAP.
> Compared
> > > to a handmade flute for $6,000+ (for which you may have to wait several
> years)
> > > or a $12,000+ bassoon, we have a great deal.

> Cheapskate's Survival Guide: We should just shut up about what bargains
> clarinets are. Instead, we should start moaning and whining about how the
> instruments are so expensive that we have to wrap the sections in old towels
> and carry them around in duffle bags because we can't afford cases. Instead
> of talking about giving half our reeds the wall test, we should say we have to
> play them all until they split, because we can't afford new ones. And we
> should say shoelace ligatures are lots, lots better than those expensive ones.

Whoa, wait just a second. Have you priced decent towels lately: the
real thick "thirsty" kind we'd need for maximum instrument protection?
Recently single guys whose wives used to do all the linen shopping get
wised up real fast to the realities of places like Linens 'n' Things and
Fortunoff's. Consider: you need hand towels for the mouthpiece and
barrel, not to mention two bath towels for the upper and lower joints.
I'm not sure about how best to wrap the bell: it's not tall but it
spreads. Do you need a towel big enough to stuff into it? Either way,
this can get pricey.

Case prices? I suppose I'm lucky my bass clarinet came with a case at
all, albeit one that looks like it didn't quite survive the Samsonite
ape-jumping-on-luggage torture test. I would need a bathsheet or maybe
even a quilt to wrap that one-piece body, and two small bathtowels to
wrap the neck joint and the bell. This gets expensive.

Does Wiseman sell a line of bath towels or does Martha Stewart put her
changed-from-the-ethnic name on musical instrument cases?

Ken
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Ken Wolman dbtrader Deutsche Bank, N.A.
1251 Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10019 212-469-6494

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