Klarinet Archive - Posting 000331.txt from 2000/11

From: HatNYC62@-----.com
Subj: [kl] stolen bass clarinet
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:55:54 -0500

It's me again. I have just read Mr. Jim's comments on the bulletin board.
Although he makes me want to puke, I do hope he is lying when he says that
there have been offers to purchase the instrument from some of you out there.
And if it is true that he has oiled the outside and inside of the instrument,
it is likely that he has done serious damage to it as well, particularly if
he is not an expert or if he managed to get oil into parts of the mechanism.
The instrument survived its first 10 years beautifully without oiling (of the
bore).

Mr. Jim (who seems not to want us to know his last name. . .hmm. .. I wonder
why?) seems to be increasingly expert about musical instruments, even though
he professed much ignorance when I first called him. . .makes me wonder what
really happend to my 3 superb mouthpieces which were in that bass clarinet
case!

As for his idea of engraving a name into my instrument in silver, well,
there's no accounting for taste (especially bad taste, but this whole thing
has been distasteful).

Has it increased the instrument's value? I don't know, he claimed he had sold
it already, now he says he hasn't. Honestly, I don't care, because he is
likely to be spending some of that money on legal bills when my insurance
company gets through with him. They called me today, informing me that they
do intend to seek legal action against Mr. Jim.

Lastly, though Mr. Jim seems proud to announce to the world that I
'apologized' to him, he seems not to want to share the rest of what I had to
say to him, which I print below.

______

I never called you any names that weren't accurate. "Jerk" and "Bottom
Feeder" seemed appropriate at the time. If you are offended, I apologize.
Perhaps I was reacting to the threat to destroy 'my' instrument (was it a
joke? I didn't hear you laughing). For that instrument was mine for longer
and in many more ways than it was ever yours. If others called you names, it
was none of my doing. They were simply having an emotional reaction to an
unfortunate situation. If I hadn't felt the instrument in question was in
imminent danger of detruction, I probably wouldn't have alerted my
colleagues, or the media.

I am happy for you that you made your profit. A real man does the honest
thing and turns the instrument over to my insurance company. A scoundrel
sells the instrument as quickly as possible, before an injunction could be
filed against him (which was coming, believe me). Likely, he does not tell
the buyer anything about the instrument's provinance. Then, he sues those who
point fingers for harassment.

Bottom line. Your 'reputation' has not suffered. No one who will ever buy
your used Maserati parts will ever have been a part of the clarinet forum.
You sell 'recovered' merchandise on ebay, you take chances that some will
belong to someone and that that person will be pissed.

I hope you slept as well as I did last week.

-HAT

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