Klarinet Archive - Posting 000477.txt from 1999/11

From: "Daniel Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Vintage clarinets
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:23:43 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Dee D. Hays <deehays@-----.com>
Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Vintage clarinets

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Chris Ms Stein <bud1237@-----.com>
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 9:57 PM
>Subject: [kl] Vintage clarinets
>
>
>>
>> Why is it that people are so skeptical when it comes to vintage
>> clarinets? I just bought an old 1929 Selmer Brevette A clarinet, and it
>> works pretty well- just wondering, thanks!
>>
>
>
>Perhaps its because you can't tell whether it's still in good condition
>until you get it cleaned up and overhauled. Far too many of them have been
>sadly neglected or beat to death.
>
>
>Dee Hays
>Canton, SD
>

More likely, Dee, is the fear of that clarinet bugaboo, "blow out," and
the automatic assumption that any instrument that old is likely to be blown
out. It would be very much to the manufacturer's liking if the belief of
the existence of blow out were so universal and accepted that no one would
ever think of buying a clarinet more than 10 years old under the impression
that it would likely be blown out.

Dan Leeson

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