Klarinet Archive - Posting 000472.txt from 1999/03

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Carl Fischer No More/Trade Laws/Customs
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:11:07 -0500

I'm a dual Canadian-US citizen. I'm a citizen going both ways. It helps
alot, but I'm ocassionally harassed. I'm not sure which side has the most
JERKS [I stick to my guns on that word] working for them. I simply wish
they and their foolish borders didn't exist...period. They seldom catch
real criminals. They seldom confiscate dangerous items. But, they are
teriffic at harassment of decent, honest people. Musicians playing for
free are treated like rabid dogs.

What's this about CF doing setup work on their imported clarinets? I, too,
remember that setup baloney. They never did a damned thing but take a
huge markup.

Ed Maurey
> From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Carl Fischer No More/Trade Laws/Customs
> Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 12:17 PM
>
> >I'm sorry to contribute to this kinda off-topic thread,
> >but Ravel, are you an american going through an american border? that
> >could have something to do with it....
>
>
> As an American crossing into Canada on many occasions (I always seem to
> be living near the border - Buffalo, NY, Seattle, WA, and now Detroit,
> MI) - the same things happen for Americans going into Canada - it's not
> just an "American" thing. My wife is a resident alien with a perfectly
> valid "green card" issued 19 years ago, right after we married. We've
> had way more troubles than we should crossing into Canada ...
> ----
> Mark Charette@-----.org/clarinet
> "Cards by Aimee", http://www.sneezy.org/Aimee
> "The phenomenon is too variable for proper study" often
> translates from "I don't know how to get musicians to do
> anything twice the same" - A. H. Benade
>
>
>
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