Klarinet Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 2003/09

From: DGross1226@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: Buffet R-13 A
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:24:58 -0400

In a message dated 9/3/2003 1:19:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, "Bryan
Crumpler" <crumpletox@-----.com> writes:

<<It's not a scam. I have never needed an A clarinet until now, and I had to
buy one at the last minute to audition for a symphony job>>

Dear Bryan,

Having been a pessimistic KLARINET asshole for the past 10 years, why do I
have trouble visualizing a person auditioning for ANY symphony clarinet job
(including high school, junior college, college, and university) who does not own
an A clarinet? What you seem to be telling us is that you've had to transpose
every part in the symphonic literature written for C or A clarinet to Bb,
correct? That's quite an accomplishment in itself. Or have you never played in
a symphony orchestra before?

Without a doubt, there are quite a few clarinetists in your area who are
fellow pessimists and assholes who would have been more than willing to let you
borrow an A clarinet had you simply made your need known to the members of the
list.

Oh well, once again hindsight is 100%.

Cheers!

Don Gross
La Canada, California

p.s. Less than a year ago I sold my R-13 A clarinet on the KLARINET
classifieds and was happy to get $850 for an instrument (a few years older than yours)
that had been professionally maintained by Steve Roberts in Los Angeles and
tweaked by Francois Kloc.

p.p.s. Subsequently I bought a BRAND NEW Buffet R-13A clarinet which had
been hand-selected by David Howard of the LA Philharmonic from Robert Gilbert's
(Los Angeles) stock for $2,000!

p.p.p.s. Get a life...

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