Klarinet Archive - Posting 000853.txt from 2003/02

From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Eefer overhaul
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:07:56 -0500

Sue, By vintage, in this context, I meant time period. No, I'll have to
say 1970's doesn't really qualify for vintage in the sense you might be
thinking of. If it does, I'd certainly be vintage!(and then some) LOL

Christy Erickson

"Music ought to be a stress reliever, not a stress producer."

-----Original Message-----
From: Raycraft [mailto:raycraft@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] Eefer overhaul

1970's is VINTAGE?
Sue

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Eefer overhaul

> I have a 1970's vintage E-flat clarinet. It's a Buffet Evette and the
last
> time my woodwind man looked at it, he said it looked like it had never
been
> overhauled. It desperately needs something before I have to play it in
our
> city band starting in May but the man who works on my clarinets is booked
up
> and couldn't do it before then. Any ideas or recommendations? I simply
> don't trust the local music stores with my clarinets. Last year, I
borrowed
> one of our local high school's A clarinets for an orchestra concert. It
was
> seriously out of adjustment, needed corks, etc... I took it to one local
> man who lightly patched things up enough to make it playable for the
> concert. When I got it again in the fall (after the orchestra director
said
> it had been in for an overhaul) it was in the same shape it had been the
> last time I'd played it. I talked to the man who supposedly "completely
> overhauled it" and of course he became very defensive. Swore up and down
he
> had taken it apart completely-all BS of course. I told the school music
> teacher the school had been ripped off and I would never take any of my
> instruments there for anything.
>
> Christy Erickson
>
> "Music ought to be a stress reliever, not a stress producer."
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------