Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2004/03

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:20:37 -0500

I think it would be equally unfair to call them smart (or even average).

Richard Bush
rbushidioglot@-----.net
On Mar 1, 2004, at 8:58 AM, Andy Jablonski wrote:

> I think its unfair to call the people "stupid"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ginger Hill [mailto:Gigi1182@-----.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:06 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
>
> It's good to hear so many others are as pissed off at this as I am. =
I'm
> in a business to sell REAL instruments, like Buffets and LeBlancs...=20=

> And
> it's utterly EMBARASSING to see these pieces of crap being sold to=20
> na=EFve
> band parents who are #1 too poor and #2 too stupid to realize you =
can't
> just buy crap. GOD THIS MAKES ME MAD! You know they sell for $50? =
NEW?!
> I can see a consignment Selmer maybe going for $50... Or a REALLY old
> Artley Student model... But really.... Any clarinet that sells for =
less
> than $300 is a waste of time and piece of crap. Can't the ICA sue =
these
> people or something? There's gotta be a law about false advertising
> (silver keys? Come on...)... And if there isnt there should be a law
> that you cannot make CRAP musical instruments. Music is the highest=20
> form
> of elation and it is blasphemous against the art itself to make and=20
> sell
> such an instrument that displays such mediocrity. Did that make sense?
> I'M MAD!
>
> ~Ginger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Film & Music Promotion Management
> [mailto:FilmPromotion@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:23 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
>
>
> klarinet@-----.org
> 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"=20=

> 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=20=

> 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=20=

> 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
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> 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=20
> (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=20=

> a
> year in our Bedroom.
>
> David B.
> http://artists.primetones.com/blummy
>
>
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