Klarinet Archive - Posting 000479.txt from 2005/03

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Edgware Clarinets
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:12:57 -0500

Well, I cannot let this opportunity pass to mention my auction on ebay,
item number 7307641382 or follow link on

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7307641382

Best wishes to all!

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Hatfield [mailto:dhatfield@-----.org]
Sent: 18 March 2005 15:58
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Cracks in Edgware

Well, after reading all this I'm feeling pretty good about the Edgware I
got on eBay awhile back for a loooow price, as it hasn't a crack
anywhere.
The seller swore it didn't but gave me a few days to examine it. I did,
inside and out, and found none. It needs a good repad, which I haven't
had
the time yet to provide, but the few minutes I spent with it to see how
it
played after my exam proved promising. I got it out of the same sort of
curiosity Lelia speaks of, mainly because of a Brymer mouthpiece I
picked
up in a junk shop. Love them flea markets.

Don

> I've also heard good things about the Edgware's sound, but in many
years
> of
> prowling junktiques shops, auctions and flea markets, I've never seen
an
> Edgware without a crack -- and I've seen a lot of Edgwares. Most
often, I
> find a very badly cracked barrel (the wide-open kind that results from
the
> shape of the bore changing radically, in wood that wasn't aged long
> enough)
> *and* at least one crack somewhere else. Random chance should mean
that
> some of these instruments have good wood in them. If I found a cheap
> Edgware without a crack, I'd buy it, because I'm curious, and willing
to
> take the chance that these instruments are old enough that if the wood
> were
> going to crack, it should have done so already. I wouldn't risk any
more
> money than flea market chump change, though....

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