Klarinet Archive - Posting 000279.txt from 1999/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] B&H Edgware
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:24:40 -0400

Wendy,
You could pretty certainly get much better instruments then Edgwares - B &
H's bottom-but-one line - in better nick, for the same total expenditure.
Somewhere.....
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Wendy Kirkland wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 21:26:02 +0100
> From: Wendy Kirkland <wendy@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] B&H Edgware
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> Dear List
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> i have been offered a pair of B&H Edgware wood clarinets, not in very goo=
d condition. The A clarinet needs rebores on the tenons, new tenon rings an=
d corks. The Bb needs new corks and rings. Both need new springs and pads e=
tc.
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> I have been quoted a price of =A3200 for an overhaul on the Bb and =A3240=
on the A. Since each clarinet would cost, secondhand, from the quoters of =
the overhaul price, @-----.
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> I would like to know if this is an unreasonable price for an overhaul. Th=
is includes recorking, cleaning, new pads and springs. The rebore and rings=
are extra. @-----.=20
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> If this is unreasonable, then what is an unreasonable price? The quoter i=
s a major woodwind shop in Nottingham, UK who has a whole shed load of funk=
y clarinets in a cabinet, and an Edgware Bb (secondhand) for @-----.
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> Please help, o oracle of mystic timbres (timbers?)
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> Wendy Kirkland
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> visit me at http://www.chessy.freeserve.co.uk
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