Klarinet Archive - Posting 001252.txt from 2000/06

From: mus_ldj@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] C clarinet
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:20:32 -0400

Yes, we are talking about the price of the instrument vs. it's personal value to
the player again. I think that it is just isn't that they've afforded one long
before they could pay for it, but also the issue of getting your money's worth.
This is how it is for me and the R-13. I mean, I'm not rich so to make an
investment like this I'd have to be in a pretty good orchestra or playing at
least 4x a week and getting something more than a few bucks out of it.

Tski1128@-----.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/27/00 10:07:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jnohe@-----.edu
> writes:
>
> << think the real reason is that it's simply not economically
> feasible for clarinetists these days to own an Eb AND a D AND a C AND a Bb
> and an A etc...some have a hard time just getting the basic pair >>
>
> I think we still get the cheap end of the woodwind deal even with all these
> horns. An industry standard set of R-13s are still slightly under $4,000/with
> silver plated keys. A brannon Bros., or Burkart -Phelan flute is just around
> $10,000.00. A Fox 601 bassoon 16,000. A loree oboe 4-5000. Plus and English
> horn. My point is this most of the people who play these instruments buy them
> long before they have a job that would help them afford it. I think once the
> Beohnm clarinet came into use it became much easier to play in all the keys,
> A few of the companies were making Low Ebs on the Bb clarinet so you could
> play 'A' parts. I think on early Albert type clarinets it was much harder to
> access extreme keys. There are some tonal nuances that I think are available
> with these other instruments. Tom Puwalski
>
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