Klarinet Archive - Posting 000358.txt from 2011/01

From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tolchin-Allard
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:54:32 -0500

I paid $300 for my new Selmer Series 10 Bb in 1973. I was graduating from
college, and thus really had no (known) further use for it at the time, but
I convinced myself that I would keep playing, for my own enjoyment if
nothing else. Just as it was when I begged my folks to buy me my own
clarinet after I graduated from high school, my promise that I would
continue to play was kept. Thank God for that $75 used Rene Dumont!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Leonard Hobby

> Subject: Re: [kl] Tolchin-Allard
>
> When I entered college in 1961, my mother bought my HS graduation gift
> through Hewgley's in Nashville. They had to order it from Selmer
> Paris,
> because I wanted the (almost) full Boehm set. I didn't get the Eb/Bb,
> because my HS teacher and my potential college teacher seemed to agree
> that that key caused tuning problems and made those notes "fuzzy",
> anyway.
> She paid $600 each for the Bb & the A Series 9*. I thought that was an
> incredible amount of money -- and I guess it was, in those days. But I
> played that set through college, grad school, orchestra, chamber, and
> ultimately, a couple of community bands, after I retired, -- almost 50
> years
> -- so I guess I more than got her money's worth out of them. I'd stil
> be
> using them, but the neuropathy from diabetis has locked down my
> fingers.
> [sob] (I still love Selmer!) The Bb decided to develop a crack in
> the
> top joint through the RH trill keys. Had it glued and strapped, and
> never
> any other problem. (People used to comment on the cute silver band,
> wanting to know how they could get one. <g>)
>
> No matter how much things change, they always stay the same. <g>
>
> Jim Hobby
>
>
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