Klarinet Archive - Posting 000339.txt from 2011/01

From: Fred <vze2bsbs@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tolchin-Allard
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:45:56 -0500

I can top that! My brand new R-13 (that is my still my main horn
today) cost $188 in December of 1963 (I still have the receipt, and
"instruction book" that taught you how to assemble and care for
it!!) I got it at Silver and Horland in lower Manhattan New
York. My mom offered $150, but the store refused and we walked
out. She must have seen how disappointed I was because before we got
back to the car we went back and bought it. I was 17 years old.

You know, it actually came with a cardboard template that you were to
use to measure the bore length of your mouthpiece to make sure the
mouthpiece would make the horn play in tune!! Salesmanship or physics??

Fred

At 12:35 AM 1/31/2011, you wrote:
>Wow! I bought my first good clarinet (r-13) from Tolchin Music in
>the sisxties
>(Lynbrook L.I.) I think I paid $650 for a new one!
>
><snip>

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