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Author: Lori
Date: 1999-09-06 01:25
I have recently won an Ebay auction for a brand new Bestler clarinet. I will be paying $200. I have since be getting warnings from other ebayers against buying off brand instruments. Has anyone heard of this brand? Any recomendations for me . This is for my daughter.
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Author: Clark
Date: 2000-08-09 19:47
Only in so much that I also purchased one for $140.00. It is exactly as described and none of the band teachers here locally will give you a breath of a response about it.
You may have problems it may cost you more to maintain but know one is committal.... They just said the corks would wear more and wouldn't hold together as well and that the keys probably would not hold up very well... but basically couldn't say that they wouldn't.
IMHO for a beginning player that may or may not continue to play beyond next year that if they cannot physically take that clarinet and show me that it will not go together and will not tune up then what can you say....
Our Daughter is going to play it until it becomes a problem...
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Author: Mark Charette, Webmaster
Date: 2000-08-09 21:53
I wouldn't have bought it (I think I mentioned that in another post). Most no name clarinets are worth less than what you pay for them, new or otherwise, and it's especially a problem for a beginner's instrument since they have no idea how it <b>should</b> play. Some are horribly out of tune, stuffy, or fall apart at inopportune moments. Most do not have keys that can be adjusted - they're made of cheap metal that breaks instead of bending. Some of those students get so discouraged that they discontinue practicing and give up the instrument, never realizing that it wasn't them - it was their instrument.
Probably not what you wanted to hear, I'm sure.
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