Klarinet Archive - Posting 000348.txt from 2011/01

From: "Steve Hartman" <sdh902@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tolchin-Allard
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:14:18 -0500

> I was living in Paris in 1962.

> It was only 7 years after the end of WW2

With inflation, Dan, that has now grown to 17 years.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: "Klarinet" <klarinet@-----.com>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:34 PM
Subject: [kl] Tolchin-Allard

> Please!!! Calm down with all those high prices.
>
> I was living in Paris in 1962. Over the period of one year I bought a low
> C bass clarinet for $245, a basset horn for $210, and a full Boehm A
> clarinet for $96. Before I moved back to the U.S., I topped it off with a
> full Boehm E-flat clarinet for $110. Prices had gone up slightly by then.
>
> In 1962-1965, the French government allowed tax free purchases when
> payment was made in U.S. dollars. It was only 7 years after the end of WW2
> and that kind of stimulus was needed to restore stability to a number of
> the European currencies including the French Franc, which had been
> stabilized by a 10 to 1 conversion. When one bought an item, the most
> important question had to do with paying in new Franc instead of the old
> Franc.
>
> I only stopped buying when I ran out of need. But in retrospect, I should
> have bought an A bass. By the time I got around to it many years later it
> cost somewhere around $4,000 for one.
>
> Dan Leeson
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