Klarinet Archive - Posting 000104.txt from 2004/11
From: kimi <kimi_kimy@-----.com> Subj: Re: [kl] All of a sudden I have become the local ebay clarinet mavin Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 23:47:43 -0500
How much is a used A clarinet running these days? I
wouldn't mind buying my daughter one just for her own
enjoyment of learning how to play it.
k
--- dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
> I got another call from a woman whose uncle left the
> National
> Symphony 40 years ago. She has his clarinet pair
> which have not
> been played in 40 years. The B-flat is a Buffet made
> in 1927
> (serial 2066), the A is a Selmer made in 1942
> (serial K6806).
>
> My repairperson says that it will cost at least $400
> to plut each
> instrument in playing condition. I can't even play
> the
> instruments to determine of there is something there
> because of
> their condition.
>
> I'm going to suggest to the woman that she put them
> on ebay in an
> "as-is condition" because I have no idea what else
> to suggest.
> If she spends $800 to repair them and all things
> work out OK, a
> pair of that age might bring $1500 if they are
> particularly good.
> (I would expect a professional who played with the
> National
> Symphony to have used quality instruments.) So she
> could make a
> slightly greater profit by putting them in shape and
> (if they are
> good) sell them.
>
> I'm not sure what to suggest to the lady other than
> an "as-is"
> proposal. She can use the money but I don't want to
> stick
> somebody in the clarinet world for $500 and then
> find out that
> what they have is useless (if that should be the
> case).
>
> Any ideas? I don't want to mistreat her or get her
> hopes up but
> I keep asking myself if I would buy a pair of
> clarinets for $500
> and then want to sink another $800 in the hopes that
> they might
> be good. If it were not for the fact that her dead
> uncle played
> them in a serious, professional symphony orchestra,
> I would not
> spent 10 minutes on the matter. But out there
> somewhere is a kid
> who needs a pair of instruments and maybe these
> might be the very
> ones he could use.
>
> Help, please. Ideas, please.
>
> Clarinets are coming out of the woodwork here. I
> got a call
> about 4 weeks ago from a couple whose uncle died and
> left
> something like 45 clarinets, one of which was the
> A-flat piccolo
> clarinet I asked about. And he was the principle
> clarinet in one
> of the best west-coast orchestras in America.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>
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