Klarinet Archive - Posting 000653.txt from 2001/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] beginning student
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:54:42 -0500

At 12:26 PM 2/17/2001 -0500, Ann H Satterfield wrote:
>And occasionally "Aunt Edna's clarinet" (family heirloom instrument) is a
>better than beginner instrument. Two students that i work with will have
>to get pro level horns to improve on the "out of the closet" instruments.

This is true. I saw a case of it a couple of years ago, where a 6th grade
beginner was using his uncle's old saxophone, which turned out to be a
Selmer Super Balanced Action ca. 1948, in pretty nice shape. But I had to
take it into the shop a couple of times with major dents and bent keys
because he did not treat it properly. It did not help that he scratched
his initials into it, either! I tried the sax myself, and there is no way
the kid (or ANY kid, for that matter) deserved that horn!

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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