Klarinet Archive - Posting 000902.txt from 1999/12

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] klarinet Digest 20 Dec 1999 09:15:00 -0000 Issue 1918
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 00:44:18 -0500

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From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausman@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] klarinet Digest 20 Dec 1999 09:15:00 -0000 Issue 1918

> At 01:54 AM 12/21/1999 -0500, Keith Bowen wrote:
> >I had a Selmer bass clarinet which developed a Grand Canyon of a crack,
> > measured almost in mm. It was pinned and filled almost invisibly by
Brian
> >Ackermann
> >and I played it for over ten years with no problems.
> >
> >I probably wouldn't BUY a clarinet with a repaired crack unless I knew
who
> >repaired it!
> >
> A crack, even well repaired, is hell on resale value, but usually does not
> affect the playability, or even durability, of the instrument itself.

When I purchased my Leblanc Symphonie II in high school, it was a used
instrument and the shop owner told me that it had a repaired crack. However
when I played it in the shop, I knew it was the instrument for me and I was
able to purchase it for the price that new student instruments were selling
for there. As I recall, it cost me $200 in about 1965. That was over 30
years ago and I *still* haven't been able to find where it had cracked and
been repaired.

This continues to be my main clarinet and I continually get compliments on
tone, etc.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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