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Re: clarinet for dummies :)

Author: Tony F
Date: 2010-10-11 08:22

I buy and sell used instruments, and some of them I get from that auction site. I keep pretty well to the major makers and I've had a couple of bad ones, about 2 in perhaps 25 bought there. Most of the instruments I've sourced from that site have needed work, ranging from a complete repad and recork to some minor tweaking of the keywork. I sell clarinets there as well, but the ones I sell really are ready to go. If you plan to buy there, build sufficient slack into your budget to allow for whatever needs doing. I do my own repairs, so I'm not too concerned about that aspect, but if I had to pay somebody to do the fixes it could be an expensive exercise.

I've had some very sad instruments brought to me that were purchased on that site, and while they all ended up as good playable instruments the cost of the necessary work certainly took the edge off any savings in the purchase price.

Tony F.

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