Klarinet Archive - Posting 000429.txt from 2004/02

From: "Film & Music Promotion Management" <FilmPromotion@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:25:07 -0500

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From: "Rebecca Brennan" <u_cant_kill_the_rooster@-----.com>
Subject: Costco Clarinets!!!
Message-ID: <BAY3-F136UeK3JZhbWG0000e8fd@-----.com>

Yesterday in band class my band director was having each of the
clarinetists
in the band play this passage and when she got to my right hand
(actually
left hand) man, he said "this clarinet isn't working" and she asked
what
kind it was. He showed it to her and she was like "First act? What?"
and he
said he had purchased it at Costco. Then she started laughing and said
"Nowonder these two have so many intonation problems! We have a Buffet
(me!)
which is one of the best in the world, and then we have COSTCO!" Then
we
talked and laughed about it for a while and Eric said "They make
trumpets
too!" and then Miss Berry was like "Don't tell us that! We don't want
the
trumpets getting any ideas.

That clears up the mystery of why Eric can sound really good one day
and
really bad the next. He has two different clarinets that he plays on.
I
think that one of them belongs to his brother though, so he plays the
Costco
clarinet every other day. At least the clarinet came in a case and not
the
Barbie Doll box that said "GREAT VALUE!" that I imagined. I believe we
discussed Wal-Mart clarinets around a year ago.

-Rebecca

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Those damn Clarinets shouldn't even be legally for sale!!!! Problem is
that they have on the box that it is endorsed by a big Music Assc
(Music Teachers Guild of some kind) that looks and possibly is legit.
What isn't legit is that the box says that the Clarinet has Silver
Keys!!! I posted the name of the assc last year around Xmas time 2002
(see the archives).

And that the Clarinet is complete crap in EVERY way. The owner should
dig up the receipt and return the Clarinet to Costco - they have an
unlimited time return policy. We just returned a DVD player that I got
tired of the lack of features after owning it (not used much) for over
a year in our Bedroom.

David B.
http://artists.primetones.com/blummy

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