Klarinet Archive - Posting 000522.txt from 2004/01

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] $1200 for your clarinet....
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:42:51 -0500

--- Ken Wolman <kwolman@-----.com> wrote:

> P. T. Barnum should be honored as a great prophet: there really IS a sucker born every minute.

Except that P.T. Barnum was not the originator of the saying. It was, rather, a Syracuse banker
named David Hannum, with visions of easy money from a scam about a stone giant "discovered" by
George Hull in 1869.

As for all this business about mediocre clarinets selling for inflated bids, it is as it always
will be: Caveat emptor. Nobody else bears responsibility, regardless of the relative ethics of
the seller.

Neil

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