Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2003/12

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Flea market finds
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:43:21 -0500

Buckman, Nancy wrote:
> I saw a clarinet at a flea market out in Ohio earlier this fall. I asked the merchant
where the mouthpiece was because it wasn't an old clarinet(in fact it
looked to be in
good playing condition...a Vito). He said he threw it away because it
had a big hole
in the side. go figure.

Oh my God. This is the kind of person...well it's not clarinets, it's
cameras. A friend of a former colleague went to a yard sale someplace
in New Jersey. There he sees a twin-lens Rolleiflex camera, late
Fifties/early Sixties, 120 film, built-in exposure meter, not only mint
but still in the box with manuals, all in shrinkwrap. I don't know if
these cameras have declined in value because of what I could call
"digitalis" if I weren't a nice guy:-), but the man was having heart
palps when he saw the price penciled on the box: $125.00. The seller
had no idea what he had or what it was worth. It sold.

This is like one of those columns in the New York Times: "You Are The
Ethicist." Did he rip off the owner who had no idea what he was selling
or did the owner rip himself off by not bothering to learn about what
he was selling, i.e., a family heirloom.

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538

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