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Author: Barrie Marshall
Date: 2003-07-07 12:04
A question, what is the least anybody has paid for a clarinet? This question was prompted by a visit to a UK Jazz Festival, I went to a session where a fellow clarinet player was gigging, I had my instrument so he suggested we do a clarinet duet, he of course noticed my metal Stirling instrument, I told him I had only paid £100 for it, he then told me the story of how he acquired his. He and his wife had a house clearance and had gone to the local tip to deposit some rubbish, he noticed some lads throwing some stuff in the skip, one of them had what looked like a clarinet case, my friend asked if he could have a look, inside was a B12 in perfect condition, so he asked if they wanted to sell it, he got it for £5! Now that is ridiculous, any stories out there, not ones you got for nothing, I was given a pair of E.J. Albert’s some years ago, they don’t count.
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Author: Benni
Date: 2003-07-07 16:27
I got my first clarinet for free . . . Visited a former music teacher at a former school, and the teacher said someone had left behind a clarinet . . . The girl had quit playing after a few months, then left the horn for "whoever wanted it." I thought that was a pretty good offer! ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
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Author: big fat lyre112
Date: 2003-07-07 17:28
Last yr. I needed a plastic clari for marching band ((I rented my 1st plastic clari then returned it when I got my E11)) and so we headed off to Ebay and found a clari for $25...it looked awsome and we asked the guy all these ?'s and stuff...bad move...It was an "Alexander" and it was sooo cheap ((what'd I expect...I payed $25 for it!)) After about 5 mins of playing the low E pad fell off...we returned it for a $150 Vito...thank God...
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-07-07 17:53
Well, Barrie -
...'waaay back in the mid 'fifties I bought a very nice plastic albert system, in very good playable condition, from a pawn shop in downtown San Francisco for fifteen US dollars. I've played albert system horns since "way back when" and, because I was in an Air Force field band at the time, that was a fine instrument for playing outdoors.
I also, around that time, bought a (13 or so key?) boxwood horn for ten dollars at another pawn shop in San Francisco. Amazingly, it was standard pitch, which leads me to now believe (since I'm so much wiser in my old age) it wasn't so old as I thought - just a cheap 13 key no name clarinet. I never got it to play well, so I traded it to my former boss at the repair shop where I'd worked before enlisting in the military... for a slide trumpet.
I don't expect to ever find deals like those again... but, we never know what's directly around the corner do we??? 
- r![[cool]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/cool.gif) n b -
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Author: VermontJM
Date: 2003-07-08 01:51
My first clarinet was a second hand shop special. We happened to go in and the store was having a sale - 50% off everything. The clarinet was $80, so I guess we got it for $40...
Jodi
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Author: deepriver27
Date: 2003-07-08 02:29
I found an old Pedler at a yard sale once for $15 about 10 years ago - played fine after pads and corks replaced. Barrel was cracked and the metal ring at the bottom of the bell was loose. after putting about $100 into it ( i had a barrel extra already) it was a fairly decent instrument - always had to adjust the keys though. Tough getting a decent tone out of it but I kept it because it was ALWAYS in tune. Strangest thing I ever saw. It was ugly looking too -
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Author: Redhedclrnetist
Date: 2003-07-08 04:00
$67. Ebay. It worked, too (surprise, surprise!)! However it turned out that whoever had owned it last hadn't played it in a while, so there were "bugs" eating the pads or something. Plus, the metal wasn't so shiny anymore, so I took it in for a complete overhaul costing $200. But I'm glad I did, because they were able to put plastic pads on it, making the whole clarinet water-resistant (and great for marching band). I wouldn't *dream* of using it for concert season though...
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-07-08 16:16
I have both been given and have given away clarinets, only a few were much good!! Most of my oldies, from years ago, were from $2 to 10. At flea markets I bot a Pedler bass cl for 35, a German Eng. Horm for 150, an 8 key wood flute [~1820?] for 35. At garage sales, seldom more than $100 even for good woods! Some repair costs ranged from $5 -200, $400 for a Selmer Mark 6 Tenor Sax overhaul, it cost 250, worth 3-4 "big-ones" !!! All over the map! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Clarence
Date: 2003-07-08 18:28
I have paid as little as 35.00 for 50's Noblets.
Here recently a friend came in the shop and gave me a tenor sax and alto sax that she found at the city dump. Lots of rust on the screws may cause me to make lamps out of these.
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Author: Barrie Marshall
Date: 2003-07-08 21:29
I once paid £200 for a student bass clarinet, I think it 'fell off the back of a lorry'(English saying meaning probably stolen) the strange thing about it was the case it was in, a soft plastic rifle case!
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