Klarinet Archive - Posting 000294.txt from 1999/07

From: gdubac <gdubac@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] New Clarinet
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 11:37:25 -0400

Which store is in Elkhart, Indiana? I may pass through South Bend,
Indiana later this summer and was planning to go to Woodwind and
Brasswind. Thanks.

Judy Weintraub (East Coaster)

Ken Wolman wrote:
>
> At 10:25 AM 7/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi. I want to buy a new clarinet. I am thinking about a wooden one, but what
> >do you reccomend? What company is best?
> >Derek
>
> <music ON>
> Here we go again,
> I here those trumpets blow again....
> <music OFF>
>
> "Best" is what you like. "Best" is what plays well for you.
>
> Investigate instruments from:
>
> Buffet
> Selmer
> Yamaha
> Leblanc
>
> Try some horns from all of them. Prepare to spend several hours in a good
> music store: you'll be parting with a good chunk of change and you want to
> be sure you love and can play for years on the instrument you walk out
> with. Wooden horns come in different price ranges based on wood quality,
> keywork, etc. You may not need a top-of-the-line instrument or you may be
> particularly flush this week:-) and want one Just Because. The
> professionals on this list (I am not one of them) play instruments from all
> the makers mentioned above.
>
> There are also European-made instruments that are harder to find in the
> States unless you are willing to try instruments via mail order or live
> close to Elkhart, Indiana. I'm thinking of Peter Eaton, Howarth, Rossi,
> and Patricola.
>
> Ken
>
> Kenneth Wolman kwolman@-----.net
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> "For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and
> wrong."
> --H. L. Mencken
>
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