Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2006/09

From: "Michael and Linda Marmer" <mlmarmer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Bass Clarinet for Beginners?
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:27:28 -0400

Band director sounds wacko like ours in 1972!

I hope that wasn't the one I used in 1972!

LOL

I think these where actually made by Buffet.

Mike Marmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christy Erickson" <woodshome7@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Bass Clarinet for Beginners?

> It is strange you should mention the year 1972 in this note. My daughter
> plays bass clarinet in her high school band program and asked to borrow
> the instrument this summer to play at music camp. It happens to be an old
> Selmer Bundy. I knew it wasn't working well and the band director would
> not release the instrument until 3 days before she was scheduled to go to
> camp. I had already had some repair work done on the instrument last
> spring before my daughter played a solo for a school music festival. I
> took the instrument to a local instrument repairman who does very good
> emergency repair work and by the time he was done the bill was $88. The
> school has used a number of different music stores over the years for
> repairs and this particular repairman checked his records on the serial
> number of that clarinet, since he recognized some of the work he had done
> on it. Sure enough-he had last had that instrument in his shop in 1972!
> My guess is that although the school says they have annual maintenance
> done on the instruments, I truly believe they simply spray them with
> disinfectant every summer and call it a day.
>
> To top this story, I called the band director to let him know I had had
> the work done on the instrument. He left me a nasty voicemail message and
> said my daughter could not necessarily have that bass clarinet to play for
> the upcoming school year and I should not have taken it in to be repaired!
> I never asked for reimbursement in any of my phone messages-just let him
> know what had been done and requested that the school allow my daughter to
> play that instrument for the upcoming school year and that the rental fee
> be waived.
>
> Needless to say, the principal of the school and I had a little
> conversation about this one and things have been straightened out.
> Anyway, you are correct that for some reason, school bass clarinets are
> highly neglected instruments and the band directors always wonder why they
> cannot inspire any of the kids to play them. Christy Erickson
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael and Linda Marmer" <mlmarmer@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Cc: "Joseph Lechner" <Joseph.Lechner@-----.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 7:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Bass Clarinet for Beginners?
>
>
>> I can relate to the comment made by someone, on how school Bass Clarinets
>> are in terrible shape.
>>
>> As a junior in High School in 1972, I played Bass Clarinet for the
>> Montgomery County High School Band in MD. I used a school Bass Clarinet,
>> as
>> the school had two of them.
>>
>> They were in terrible shape!
>>
>> I remember dragging in both of them to Chuck Levin's who at the time, had
>> the county contract to fix county instruments. Dragging them on a bus,
>> public transportant, was no fun either, to Chuck's.
>>
>> The tec said they would be better off as lamp post. Well, I had a
>> matching
>> set, then! Too bad, we did not have Ebay back then, as that is where
>> they
>> could of gone, Bass Clarinet Lamp Posts, Rare matching set. Comes in
>> Aligator type case.
>>
>> They worked over both of the bass clarinets and I did okay with one of
>> them
>> for a trip to Europe we did.
>>
>> Mike Marmer
>>
>>
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