Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2004/04

From: "DWH" <dhatfield@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Conn-Selmer (was Re: [kl] Baxter-Northrup C Clarinet?)
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 00:20:04 -0500

What?!?!? No Artley clarinets. Where will it all end? No more broken middle
tenons? We made a nice little business at one point when I found a music
store going out of business with about twenty old Artleys in disrepair, and
we suddenly had a plethora of replacement parts. I'll wager we had at least
three or four a year come into our shop because the middle tenon would break
if you looked at them the wrong way.
A good story - I was manning our store's booth at the state music educator's
convention, and when I got a chance to sneak away went to the Boosey booth
to play a Greenline for the first time, as well as their other clarinets.
The UMI rep was next to them, and when he saw me enjoying myself, handed me
a "new and improved" Artley (this was in 2000) and went on and on about how
much better it was, that this one had been "professionally set up" for him
to bring to the show, and blah-blah-blah. Plus he offered to buy me a beer
after the show that night. So I humored him, and after playing it a couple
of minutes he asked me if I wasn't convinced yet that it was as good as an
R-13.
I looked him in the eye and said "I don't think your expense account could
buy me enough beer to ever think that."
He didn't talk to me the rest of the weekend after I got my beer.

Better news is that Artley clarinets will probably soon
> be only a bad memory.

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