Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 2003/03

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] More corporate shenanigans in the instrument manufacturing world
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:22:20 -0500

Did it come with a case? I doubt it needed one though.

>As scary as it seems, there was a clarinet at a BJ's Warehouse
>Club in NJ that I saw (BJs is like Cosco or Sams, but on the
>East coast only, as far as I know) and it was packaged EXACTLY
>like you said. Cardboard display box, clear plastic front, and
>little white plastic bands to hold the clarinet to a cardboard
>board inside the box for viewing. I believe it said "NEW
>CLARINET!" on the box. Put a blond wig on it and it could be a
>drag clarinet, imitating Barbie. I think this particular
>clarinet would have worked better as a doll anyway. Was LESS
>than $200. Was not WORTH $200 either.

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