Klarinet Archive - Posting 000355.txt from 2011/01

From: William Foss <billfoss47@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tolchin-Allard
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:54:36 -0500

OK, OK, in the summer of 1964 my parents gave me a graduation present
of a round trip ticket from Chicago to Paris and a day at the Buffet
factory, testing and selecting clarinets. I purchased a pair of
R-13's from the factory for $500.00 cash. These are the horns I have
played every day since !

Bill Foss
U.S. Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor, retired
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:
> Please!!! =A0Calm down with all those high prices.
>
> I was living in Paris in 1962. =A0Over the period of one year I bought a =
low C bass clarinet for $245, a basset horn for $210, and a full Boehm A cl=
arinet for $96. Before I moved back to the U.S., I topped it off with a ful=
l Boehm E-flat clarinet for $110. Prices had gone up slightly by then.
>
> In 1962-1965, the French government allowed tax free purchases when payme=
nt was made in U.S. dollars. It was only 7 years after the end of WW2 and t=
hat kind of stimulus was needed to restore stability to a number of the Eur=
opean currencies including the French Franc, which had been stabilized by a=
10 to 1 conversion. =A0When one bought an item, the most important questio=
n 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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Bill Foss
US Army Retired
USC Aiken, Adjunct Faculty Retired
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep
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