Klarinet Archive - Posting 000470.txt from 2000/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Good Middle School Bass Clarinet?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:55:13 -0500

At 10:18 AM 1/15/2000 -0500, Karl Krelove wrote:
>All the instrumental teachers in our district order Yamaha as a first choice
>in bass clarinets and saxes of all sizes. But lately the back-order time at
>the factory has been long enough to send at least two bass orders back to
>Selmer. The last Yamaha I ordered for the district, ordered in August 1998,
>ended up being promised by the supplier for December 1999 because of factory
>delays. We cancelled the order. Saxes are routinely taking six months.
>
>This seems too long to wait for mass-produced instruments. I know you could
>wait years for a Haines or Powell flute or a Louree oboe, but we're not
>talkng here about hand finished instruments, I don't think. We're ordering
>student instruments, not pro lines, after all. Maybe some of the listers who
>are involved in instrument sales have some further insight into this. Bill?
>
I agree that the situation is ridiculous. If the demand is that great, why
can't they figure out how to keep up with it? It costs us lost sales, so
it must be costing them, too. Even 6 months is far too long to wait for
something that should be in warehouse stock for immediate delivery. Lack
of product in stock is a pet peeve of mine at the store level, and REALLY
annoying when the manufacturers keep THEIR inventor too thin to respond to
demand. Maybe if government agencies stopped taxing merchandise for sale
as "property," inventories would not be maintained at artificially low levels.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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