Klarinet Archive - Posting 000488.txt from 2003/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] C-Clarinet Alert
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:00:16 -0500

At 10:09 AM 11/30/2003 -0800, Dan Leeson wrote:
>It appears to be a good instrument but that price is strange. Notice that
>the history of the instrument is said to be brand new and was found in a
>old shop that closed down, meaning that the instrument has probably been
>there for some time (not that there is anything bad about that). The
>instrument is a center tone model and Selmer has not made those for some time.
>
>Bottom line is that I don't thing the original purchase price was what the
>store paid for it or what the store would have sold it for at the time of
>its purchase.
>
>The comparable models that are being sold today for $4000 (according to
>the ad) are not comparable.

Maybe better, maybe worse. Depends on the individual. Figuring that my
Series 10 listed for $545 back in 1973, this one may have been priced as
low as $300 or so when new, but in 1953 dollars of course.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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