Klarinet Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2006/03

From: "George Huba" <ghuba@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Buffet R-13 Played and Failed
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:58:32 -0500

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From: Rommel John Miller [mailto:rjmiller@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 7:52 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet R-13 Played and Failed

Places like WWBW and others could care less if we were repeat customers,
becasue where we have be burned, others who haven't will come to be burnt.
And that is what life has become since I was a little kid, and I don't know
if it was Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 1,
or Clinton who fouled it up but I just know the "there's a sucker born every
minute, and we're out to screw him" ethic of business has been around for
longer than any of these guys.

And we can't blame anyone particular race or group of people the way the
Nazis did. For the Nazi's themselves were greedy little bastards too.

All I or anyone wants is a fair deal and a decent product. And now it seems
the only way you can get is to be some kind of rich millionaire to be able
to afford it. Well that isn't right, becasue while money is nice, it is
not power, and lots of it doesn't weild you power, or it does, but if you
don't know how to use the power it gives you, you will soon fall into ruin.
That's why mafia bosses like to kill one another off, for money, power and
control, and the little goombahs do the same thing, and then the Boyz in da
hood do the same thing.

When money = power, violence and death are not far behind,
but when KNOWLEDGE = power, people become EMPOWERED.

And we need to demand more accountability from Buffet.

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Since you apparently have $8000 to spend, perhaps you should contact a
custom clarinet maker (Fox, Rossi, Backun) and order an $8000 clarinet that
will have all of the custom work you apparently desire. Given their
multi-year wait lists, a lot of folks apparently think that the work of
custom makers is worth their asking price. But be real; you will not find a
new $8000 clarinet available for $2200 and you will not find that an $8000
clarinet will be perfect and play itself. Possibly you would rather have an
$8000 clarinet than a less expensive clarinet and a saxophone or a piano. As
an adult, you get to choose how to allocate your $8000.

If you have $2200 to spend, then consider the R13 against the competition
from Yamaha, Selmer, Leblanc, etc. Buy the one that is best, or if you like
none, invest your money in stocks, bonds, a certificate of deposit, or a
hole in the ground. Or use the $2200 toward your piano.

If you have great knowledge and your knowledge = power, then go to an
auction site and purchase the world's greatest horn for $300 from among the
hundreds of options available monthly and spend $350 overhauling it to your
personal ideal.

You get to choose from among the available choices that match the business
models used in free market economies that greatly benefit much of the
world's population. Ranting is not going to make other choices available.
And if Buffet were out to "steal" from everyone, they would not be the #1
choice among U.S. professionals as U.S. professional clarinet players are,
as a group, neither dumb nor millionaires (and I say that as someone who
chooses to purchase Selmer and Leblanc clarinets and could, if I wanted a
custom clarinet rather than something else like a car or education for my
children, go to a Fox or Backun or Rossi for a new horn).

You are fortunate enough to live in a free society where adults get to
choose among alternatives, some of which will be more or less acceptable to
you as an individual. Make your choice and live with the consequences and
stop asking the world to "guarantee" that your decisions and choices produce
perfect outcomes.

George

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