Klarinet Archive - Posting 000432.txt from 2004/02

From: "DWH" <dhatfield@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:30:30 -0500

Here's the gold-plated version of these "clarinets". I watched a
ten-year-old pick one up to look at with his parents at a Sam's Warehouse
last year. The child bent two keys applying normal pressure just trying to
hold it correctly.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3706803896&category=47098

Don Hatfield

> 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.

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