Klarinet Archive - Posting 000077.txt from 2006/12

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] OK. I give up
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:00:28 -0500

have you considered listing your bsthrn at a lower
price to see what the market will pay? you could
always have a high reserve to keep your options open.

--- dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> At first, I was thinking about responding to this
> posting. But it
> is so cockeyed and wrongheaded, so technically
> fallacious, so
> completely unaware of the fallacies that it
> suggests, that I've
> decided to leave it alone and let the author sink.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: danyel [mailto:rab@-----.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 3:27 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] OK. I give up
>
>
> sure, but that tells exactly how little even
> clarinettists know
> about basset
> horns.
> I believe everybody should have at least one basset
> horn, but
> yours is
> indeed specialised. Honestly, I asked myself, who
> needs a modern
> system
> (and, of all things, Boehm) basset horn? There is
> indeed very
> little and not
> very rewarding repertoire for that. Very few serious
> players
> today would
> play Mozart on an ahistoric horn with all the
> correct forked
> fingerings
> missing, tons of useless keywork and without a
> proper period
> model (Lotz...)
> it was copied from etc., so I think that's why
> people don't tear
> this thing
> from your hands. This might sound a bit provocative
> considering
> that you, a
> major Mozart and BH expert, obviously played on this
> instrument
> for years
> and consider it the best available horn. Maybe you
> could take the
> occasion
> of pointing out in how far or why those "period"
> instruments are
> no
> alternative for you.
> Besides, I am sure it is an extremely well-made
> instrument.
>
> Best wishes and good luck,
> danyel
> www.echoton.de/clar.html
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:18 PM
> Subject: [spam] RE: [kl] OK. I give up
>
>
> > It's NOT a basset clarinet!! Jeez. Don't tell me
> I did not
> make
> > that clear.
> >
> > Dan Leeson
> > DNLeeson@-----.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Glenn Kantor [mailto:klarinet@-----.net]
> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:59 AM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: Re: [kl] OK. I give up
> >
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > You've done nothing wrong.
> >
> > Unfortunately, your target group of potential
> buyers is
> > incredibly small.
> >
> > To ask a talented student or semi-pro to drop
> $10,000 on an
> > instrument where
> > the repertoire is but a (very small) handful of
> works is asking
> > quite a lot.
> >
> > Thus, you are left with the (ever declining) small
> pool of
> > full-time working
> > professional clarinetists.
> >
> > Economic times for classical musicians are
> difficult. Given the
> > choice of
> > buying a basset clarinet or purchasing a new car,
> paying the
> > mortgage or
> > saving some funds, a new harmony clarinet purchase
> is low on
> the
> > agenda of
> > priorities.
> >
> > Glenn Kantor (GBK)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
> > To: "klarinet@-----. org"
> <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:06 PM
> > Subject: [kl] OK. I give up
> >
> >
> >> After two tries, my magnificent basset horn has
> not sold. It
> >> will not longer be put up on ebay. I haven't
> decided what to
> > do
> >> with it.
> >>
> >> I must be doing something wrong. If I figure it
> out, I'll let
> > you
> >> know.
> >>
> >> Dan Leeson
> >> DNLeeson@-----.net
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