Klarinet Archive - Posting 000349.txt from 2011/01

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tolchin-Allard
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:43:39 -0500

Yes. 17. Arithmetic was never my best subject.

Dan
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From: "Steve Hartman" <sdh902@-----.net>
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Tolchin-Allard

>> 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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