Klarinet Archive - Posting 000641.txt from 1999/07
From: "Carl Schexnayder" <carlsche@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Artist Instruments from Local Stores
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:42:46 -0400
Hi Jim,
I don't remember mentioning Florida. I live in a "semi-rural" community in
Louisiana, about 20 miles south of Baton Rouge. Thanks for your support of
the ideas I presented.
Here are a couple of related points. In our town, the local music store
owner lives in a million dollar house! He has periodically complained to be
because I help my students get good prices on the instruments they buy and
he's mentioned to me before, that music retailers are people that have to
make a living also! Now I'd like for him to compare the living he makes as
a music store owner with what I make as a band director. He readily admits
that a band director should make more money and that school boards should
FUND school music programs, but feels that I made a choice to make that
sacrifice and can't see why he should work to improve that situation. Why
can't he see that he also made a choice?
When I look at the house he lives in and the car he drives, not to mention
his talk of wonderful family vacations he takes and on and on,.........I
have a hard time feeling sorry for him!!!!!
Furthermore, he thinks that all the local band directors and band students
should just come into his store and buy their instruments from him. He
doesn't cater to band members or directors. If you go into his store,
you'll see a hundred million drum sets, just as many guitars, basses,
keyboards, amplifyers, effects pedals, etc.! Try to find the first clarinet
or trumpet......try to find an oboe or a basson....try to find the first
Etude Book, reed, mouthpiece, etc........and you're out of luck!!!!!!!
Sure, he has flutes, clarinets, saxophones and trombones, (and even those,
all student line), but those instruments are hidden in the back of the store
somewhere as though they have nothing to do with the real business of
"professional" music.....as if he'd be ashamed for some of his rock
customers to know that he also sells "wind instruments"!
The way I see it, not all, but a very large percentage of people in
"business" are mostly interested in "making money"!!!!!!! Most have very
little use for those who follow ideals.....Those kinds of people are
deadbeats!!!!
Anyway, I'm just trying to offer a couple of different aspects in regard to
this topic.
Many business people think that the best musician is the one who makes the
most money! By their standards, the best music store would also be the one
that makes the most money, and that would be the mail order music
store!!!!!!
Carl Schexnayder
In a message dated 7/18/99 4:36:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
carlsche@-----.net writes:
<<
If school boards valued music more, they would provide us with the funding
to obtain and maintain a quality set of instruments, not to mention
uniforms, music and normal transportation, especially to events which we
are
required to attend!
>>
How true! This will be my fifth year as a band parent, and it seems that
professional music educators (how's that Patty?) must, by necessity, be
preoccupied with fund raising just to keep their programs running. How much
time does this leave the professionals to instill in their students a love
and appreciation of music, not to mention teaching the fundamentals? What
message does this send about the lasting value of the performing arts
versus,
for example, television or other forms of prepackaged entertainment?
Comments, anyone?
By the way, Carl, where in Florida? I'm from Orlando.
Regards to all,
Jim
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