Klarinet Archive - Posting 000724.txt from 1999/09

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] What a price!
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:36:46 -0400

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:

> > I am sending you 100 Vandorens. The price to you will be $6.00 (!)
>
> Yeah, but couldn't a family of four eat for a week on $6.00, in 1924???

That would have been more likely in the mid-1930's, in the depth of the
Great Depression. In the 1920's (the "roaring 20's") money was still
flowing more freely, although to a degree it was prosperity on paper only.

It was during the 1930's that people were buying Heckel bassoons for $200
- $400, but not many people could come up with that much money at that
time.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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