Klarinet Archive - Posting 000249.txt from 2004/04

From: "Mike Kirk" <mlkirk@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] why is this clarinet $14,000?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:34:05 -0400

Interesting. I have the aforementioned CD set and never noticed the picture
that closely.
The clarinet is pictured correctly (with his right hand grasping the
clarinet on the lower section).
The set is nice and was reasonably priced. It's digitally remastered, with a
1998 copyright.
There's 40 tracks, 10 of which were live recordings.

Mike Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: C.Talbot [mailto:carolyn.talbot@-----.org]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:39 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] why is this clarinet $14,000?

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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