Klarinet Archive - Posting 000212.txt from 2003/10

From: "Don Hatfield" <dhatfield@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] LeBlanc barrels
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:04:43 -0400

Send me the serial number from home later and I'll make a call to my former
employer, they may have a copy of the list around.

The only time I had any success with Leblanc was the short time Tom Ridenour
was with them, I could always count on an answer to a question from or
through him. The parts people have also usually been pretty helpful.

Don

Ps- I just play my clarinet at lunch right here in the office...no one's
complained yet....I think....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] LeBlanc barrels

>
>
> Don Hatfield wrote:
>
> > Is this like the Monty Python sketch with the comy chair ("Confess, I
say!")
>
> Drag in from another musical: "I'd prefer a new edition of the Spanish
> Inquisition than to have Kenosha's service in my life." Hey, it even
scans....
>
> > I have a Noblet that I don't play often, but the original barrel is
quite
> > good and tunes great, it is a .66, if that will help your decision. My
> > Noblet is about twenty years old, BTW (and I know because I managed to
get
> > the serial number/date from them after pestering them for a month on a
daily
> > basis by phone, although I was working for a LEblanc dealer at the
> > time...but have since been unable to locate the serial number info they
gave
> > me, darn it).
>
> Thanks for the info. I have NO idea how old the instrument is, not a
clue. I
> am at work so I don't have the clarinet with me ("Why Ken, you mean you
don't
> play in the parking lot during lunchtime?"), so there's no point in even
calling
> them. The idea that you worked for one of their dealers and still
couldn't get
> the information is a bit much.
>
> The clarinet isn't THAT good that the Service Department can get away with
> run-and-duck at the simplest request. Yes, I heard about The Great Fire
and
> LeBlanc's consequently spotty records, but as long as nobody in the shop
got
> killed or seriously injured, I don't want to hear it. Guesswork will do;
no
> response will not. As I contemplate the money I don't have, I think more
and
> more, if there is a next time, of violating my article of faith: NBE,
i.e., No
> Buffet Ever.
>
> I oughta save the $60 bucks (figuring shipping) I'd spend on a barrel and
save
> it toward something else.
>
> Ken
> --
> Kenneth Wolman
> Proposal Development Department
> Room SW334
> Sarnoff Corporation
> 609-734-2538
>
>
>
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