Klarinet Archive - Posting 000429.txt from 1999/03

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Carl Fischer No More
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:31:29 -0500

Whadaya mean, "no control"? As the sole importer of Buffets CF had a
disgusting if legal monopoly and was happy to have the goons of the US
Customs service do their enforcement. I knew people who had newly
purchaced instruments confiscated at the Port of NY upon return from
Europe. CF was price gouging...plain and simple. I've always found
monopolists to be amongst the vilest of economic parasites.

Steve, I'm sorry CF's closing is causing you so much difficulty. I live
on the fringes of the known universe in Canada and have been victimized too
often by far away businessmen with their little "exclusive rights of
distributorship".

Actually, I'm an OK guy. I try to stay away from batons.

Ed Maurey

> From: Steven J Goldman, MD <sjgoldman@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Carl Fischer No More
> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 11:50 PM
>
> So, for a personal grudge (correct or not) that occurred 25 or more years
> ago, and a practice that CF had no control of, you don't mind the very
real
> difficulty that the closing puts many of us in.
>
> Talk about self centered and egocentric! Are you a conductor by any
chance?
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Maurey [mailto:edsshop@-----.ca]
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 3:53 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Carl Fischer No More
>
>
> Many of of are bemoaning the death Carl Fisher. I'm not. About 25 years
> ago CF billed me for some music that I never ordered or received. I
wrote
> the repeatedly telling the the error of their ways. The Idiots just kept
> billing me again and again. I simply ignored them for a couple years
until
> they gave up or ran out of stamps.
>
> But, the big reason I'm glad to hear of their passing is their
monopolistic
> importing practices back in the 60's. They were the sole "legal"
importer
> of Buffet Clarinets into the USA. The US Customs Jerks could and did
> confiscate Buffet products that Americans traveling in Europe purchaced
and
> wished to bring home. The fixed US price for a Bb was $350. The French
> retail price was $125. Carl Fisher was really screwing us American
> Clarinetists!
>
> Ed Maurey
>
>
>
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