Klarinet Archive - Posting 000441.txt from 2004/01

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] A penny for your clarinet....
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:18:31 -0500

Bruce McGarvey wrote:

>
> The real screams, though, are some of the descriptions. I've seen Bundys
> described as "professional instruments" and metal clarinets as being made
> out of silver, and of course every other older banged up clarinet in there
> is described as "rare."
>
I asked one of the owners of a metal clarinet up for sale how he
concluded that it was silver, as contrasted with silver plating, and his
answer was that the put a magnet on the body and there was no
attraction, so it had to be silver. I was not about to tell him that it
could have been bamboo or chopped liver.

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Dan Leeson
leeson0@-----.net

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