Klarinet Archive - Posting 000433.txt from 2004/02

From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:44:31 -0500

At 04:22 PM 2/26/2004, you wrote:

>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).

I went so far as to take my own clarinet in to Costco and play the two and
show the manager what was wrong with them. After playing mine, I "tried"
to play theirs and had great difficulty with any note requiring the
register key. I bent the long B key in the process. He got the message
but continues to display the instruments. I have since written to
Costco and am waiting for a reply (which I doubt will come, since it has
been six weeks). I do plan on writing to the editor of the local papers
and seeing if I can get the TV stations interested in this rip-off.

Nancy

Nancy Buckman
Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
eefer@-----.net

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