Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 2003/01

From: "Avi Rostov" <musictek@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Chinese Clarinets
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:21:57 -0500

Worse than having the parents feel foolish is having the parents not realize
how foolish they are and sending their child off to school with a horn that
doesn't work. Those kids think they can't do what all the other children
sitting around them in beginning band can do. So, they quit and spend the
rest of their lives with the gift of music replaced by the feeling that they
are inadequate.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] RE: Chinese Clarinets

> At 08:29 AM 1/7/2003 -0800, Lombard, Jennifer wrote:
> >Sounds like the best places to get instruments are from reputable music
> >stores...Wow...I can't believe that they would sell stuff like that.
>
> You get what you pay for. When the instruments sell for HUNDREDS of
> dollars less than legitimate music stores ask, little warning buzzers
> should go off in your ears. The people selling them in Costco and
wherever
> have no clue, and the typical parent buying doesn't either. Boy, do they
> feel foolish when they realize they have been taken and all they have to
> show for it is an expensive "caveat emptor" lesson.
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
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