Klarinet Archive - Posting 000654.txt from 1999/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Post-Factory adjustment
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:44:52 -0500

At 08:56 AM 2/16/99 -0500, 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?
>
Granted, among all orchestral instruments, clarinets are among the least
expensive (although your basic Bach Stradivarius trumpet is considerably
less). Still for $2,000 or so, I expect a finished product. When we buy a
car, we accept (but not without grumbling) a certain number of bugs due to
the enormous complexity of the machines. But in that case, the
manufacturer has provided convenient, free correction of problems at every
dealership. As long as correction of intonation problems in clarinets is
just as available, convenient, and free, I will be mollified.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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