Klarinet Archive - Posting 000142.txt from 2006/08

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] clar pricing
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:21:59 -0400

We saxophonists don't change horns to play in an easier key---we just play anything writtten.

As to the cost of buying a second, third, or ninth clarinet, some of us just sacrificed.

Well I remember being in college, and eating rice and water, or bread and water for 3-4 months every year. Many months at a time I would walk or ride my bike. I had patches on the patches on my pants and changed the cardboard in the soles of my shoes. I went without a new tv until about age 30, and then got the cheapest portable. Today I have a couple of lovely A clarinets- a Selmer and a Buffet R13, a couple of fabulous C clarinets- a Buffet R13 and an Amelotte (Robert??), a Selmer 9 alto clarinet and a Buffet alto clarinet, several good Bb's, and a Bundy Bass. I have several really fine Bb clarinets. True, I want a Selmer Bass and Contrabass.

Scrimping and sacrificing and priorities will get us fine instruments. I did NOT buy them at the cheapest place either, though several were purchased wholesale as I am a dealer. I ALWAYS bought great instruments ONLY.

Price was not the issue, but quality was.

Along the way I dealt with relatives that stole from me or were drunks, or mentally ill, but the goal of good instruments was there, and I sacrificed for it.

I am sure that is true for many on here. For one, I am much more interested in hearing of the person who FOUND A WAY, than of how terrible it is to have to pay for something important.

(DANNY saw the DUMP I lived in so I could save rent money for horns!!!!)

It might be VERY INTERESTING to hear stories of how people scrimped to get a horn----WHO BESIDES ME HAS A STORY OR TWENTY???

Kurt Heisig

-----Original Message-----
>From: William Kelly <kell0786@-----.edu>
>Sent: Aug 7, 2006 7:23 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] clar pricing
>
>Or, perhaps neither so much a need nor a luxury, but in some ways a
>hindrance. I don't know if I have observed so much whining as I have among
>clarinetists because a concerto has a key signature of, say, 5 sharps.
>

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