Klarinet Archive - Posting 000321.txt from 2004/09

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Pair of metal clarinets for sale on E-bay. Said to be Sterling.
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:07:06 -0400

In my own defense, I must have seen something in the
advertisement that caused me to thing that they were sterling. I
don't know what that was and you seem to have looked a lot harder
than me.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Lelia Loban [mailto:lelialoban@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 5:14 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Pair of metal clarinets for sale on E-bay. Said to
be
Sterling.

I wrote,
>Dan's thread header says, "said to be Sterling," but
>I can find no such claim in the seller's ad, which
>identifies both clarinets as silver-plated -- normal
>for metal Selmers.

Aad Overeem wrote,
>>I'm the lucky owner (found on eBay, like a lot of
>>other great instruments!) of a similair Selmer Bb
>>clarinet, and like Dan said it surely is made of
>>solid Sterling silver and a wonderful instrument
>>with a great 'dark' (;-) sound!

It sounds like a wonderful instrument; but Dan wasn't writing
about your
clarinet. He was writing about the pair currently on eBay, which
the
seller's ad *does not claim* are made of Sterling Silver. The ad
specifies
that they're silver-plated. Since most Selmer metal clarinets
are
silver-plated, I would assume that the seller's information is
correct,
unless there's definite evidence that it's wrong and that the
clarinets are
the much rarer Sterling models. What I wanted to know was what
makes Dan
think these clarinets are "said to be Sterling." Said by whom?
Has
someone observed a Sterling hallmark somewhere in the photos? Is
there
some other positive information, or is this just a mistake in the
thread
header? Sorry to be argumentative, but it's an important point
to clarify,
because it makes a large difference in the value of the
instruments.

Lelia Loban
America can do better: Kerry and Edwards in 2004!

-----------------------------------------------------------------
----
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc.
http://www.woodwind.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org