Klarinet Archive - Posting 000301.txt from 1999/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Local stores
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:14:50 -0500

At 10:56 PM 3/4/99 -0600, Dee Hays wrote:
>
>I happily have the local tech do my repair work (a very competent person).
>But if I want to buy a mouthpiece, I must mail order for the ONLY ones they
>carry are Selmer. When I decide to buy a new instrument, it will have to be
>mail order as all they carry are Jupiters and Selmers (as many of you know,
>I favor Leblancs). Shortly I will have to buy my sheet music by mail order
>as I have just about got a copy of every clarinet piece that he carries.
>Accessories like metronomes, swabs, etc I buy there as the price difference
>compared to mail order isn't great and I have the added convenience of just
>picking up what I need. I probably buy about half the family's reeds there
>too just for convenience. However he only carries regular Vandorens,
>Mitchell Luries, and regular Ricos. If you want something else, you are
>right back to mail order. I cannot however buy my husband's sax reeds as he
>prefers the Javas and they don't carry them.
>

What, they won't special order things like reeds for you?

>There is another music store down the street. They are the authorized
>dealer in this area for Leblanc. But you know what they have in the store?
>Plenty of Vitos for the students. They have ONE Sonata (not several) to try
>and none of Leblancs other models on hand.
>
A decision driven by costs and the market. You simply cannot afford to
stock multi-thousand dollar instruments in quantity when you sell one every
two years or so. Around here, buying a Selmer 100 or YCL-34 is considered
a big splurge. Believe me, the lack of such variety and quantity drives me
crazy every day at work, but I see how many people come into the store even
LOOKING for pro clarinets, much less with cash in hand. While I am
currently engaged in a personal crusade to broaden and deepen our
small-goods inventory (the boss doesn't see it my way yet, but I am making
progress), I have to admit that you can't tie up that much inventory money
in slow-moving instruments indefinitely. And then there are the people who
try it out in your store, then order it from the catalog, but we've been
over that ground already.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
Essexville, MI 48732 http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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