Klarinet Archive - Posting 000242.txt from 2004/04

From: "C.Talbot" <carolyn.talbot@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] why is this clarinet $14,000?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:39:23 -0400

The poster I have of Steve Allen playing Benny Goodman also has been reversed,
making the whole clarinet backwards - right hand on top, etc. Was the one you
saw reversed?

Carol

On 16.04.2004 at 13:22:20, Don <dhatfield@-----.org> wrote:

> Dunno...but it's interesting there are four bids by two people, one with a
> feedback of 1, the other with 8...so after a couple of past potential
> screwball things like this I've known of on eBay, could be someone is
> playing around, or trying to establish a reputation. At $14,000, it had
> better be a "Dyna-Mite" Tone clarinet. I have an old Bundy I could get
> $13,000 for, it's not quite up to $14,000, it needs a few pads replaced...
>
> Maybe it once belonged to Jimmy Hoffa?
>
> And just to add to the subject of nutty clarinet stuff - I was in our local
> music/CD/movie store yesterday. I spotted a CD collection of Benny Goodman's
> Greatest Hits that came from a company in the UK - and it had a publicity
> photo of Steve Allen portraying Benny on the front. A young man across from
> me saw me snort and then laugh and asked "What's up, man?"
> I showed him the CD and asked "Can you see what's wrong with this picture?"
> Silly me.
> He smiled and said "It isn't Benny Goodman, it's that dude that played him
> in a movie once."
> Turns out the young fellow is the son of an old friend from my local
> All-County band days in the clarinet section. So the next time you see a kid
> sporting the 'goth' look...don't understimate them...turns out as well that
> he follows in his dad's love of big band music and bebop. He wants to hook
> up with my seventeen-year-old son who's a jazz-loving bass player, so they
> can jam and talk about us old guys.
>
> Don Hatfield
>
>
> > could someone tell me why this clarinet is worth $14,000?
> > thanks
> >
> > Sue
>
>
>
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