Klarinet Archive - Posting 000563.txt from 2000/03

From: Leighton Bingham <cassus@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] B12 local store vs catalogue
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:30:42 -0500

Dear Friends,
No doubt this has been discussed before.
I have this catalogue that offers Buffet clarinets, the price on the B12 is
$385. I have been renting one for some time and still owe more than twice
that.
I went down to where the music used to play and showed them the prices.
Well as you might guess there was a lot of hemming and hawing. There was no
service dept with the catalogue, Any repairs on horns not purchesed at the
store was $50/hr. etc. We got off on the idea of buying a E11. And the
salesperson showed me several clarinets/oboes that needed repairs. They had
cracked and pins had been put in them to hold them together. He also showed
me some other instruments with what appeared to me as serious flaws in the
wood. He assured me that these too would someday crack. In fact he said in
Utah all clarinets crack sooner or later! Did I really want to buy an
instrument sight unseen?
I thought to my self this will make no difference in a plastic
instrument(?) but the advice on wood clarinets seems reasonable to me.
Any thoughts?

--
Leighton Bingham
Abusus non tollit usum

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