Klarinet Archive - Posting 000260.txt from 2000/11

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: stolen bass clarinet
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 22:13:09 -0500

HatNYC62@-----.com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/3/00 4:02:23 AM, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org writes:
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> << However, I wonder why the conversation is so hectic since it is actually
> only the insurance company which is being ripped off.

I feel like we all are being ripped off. We have all gone though the experiences
of being the new kid on the block professionally when we got our first gigs and
were actually paid for it, and it was probably at a time in our lives when money
was scarce, our families were beginning, and expenses were more than our pay
checks. We held out, shared apartments and transportation expenses to make ends
meet. We all feel the impact and consequences of having our most important
wage-earning tool taken from us. I think many of us feel, at least to some
degree, the personal violation that David must have felt. Just imagine how you
would have felt if you had discovered your instruments were gone and the food on
your table and the payments for all your bills depended upon your performance at
that evenings rehearsal. The insurance company didn't get ripped off, they
operated in accordance with their policies which I'm sure are based upon their own
and industry wide statistics and experiences. I feel that we all are looking out
for each other and our positive and supportive responses and actions are a
positive contribution to the well-being of our fellow musicians. A situation like
this is just like what occurs in nature, some stand by and do nothing while
another gets sacrificed, and some will join together to fight of the attacker.

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> The reason I am so concerned is that this is a superb instrument that
> deserves to be owned, maintained and loved by a superb musician. One would
> assume that a buyer of this type of instrument would be someone very serious
> about music, such as a professional. I would not want one of my fellow
> professionals to pay good money for an instrument with a clouded history.
> That is a nightmare none of us would want to live through.
>
> If the sleeze bag trying to auction the Bs Clar gets a bid that is anywhere near
> the instruments true value then it may be that the bid is being offered by
> someone who knows the true value of the instrument. I hope it would not be a
> fellow musician or proprietor du musik who sees a quick buck.

I feel for David for I too am the victim of an instrument theft that occurred long
ago. It was an exceptional flute. It was an Armstrong student model that had
something wrong with it, it played like a Haynes. I loaned it to a friend and it
was stolen out of his car. The insurance paid nothing due to depreciation. If
only I had been older and wiser at the time maybe I'd still have the flute.

GaryT

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