Klarinet Archive - Posting 000434.txt from 2004/02

From: "mlmarmer" <mlmarmer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:53:21 -0500

Costco doesn't care. They are in the business to sell and move products,
including clarinets.

Mike Marmer
Germantown, MD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Buckman" <eefer@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!

> 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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