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Re: Who manufactured my clarinet?

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-11-05 14:36

The flea market cockroaches among us call those clarinets with pieces from more than one instrument "marriages." If you've seen the movie "The Princess Bride," you know how we pronounce the word "marriage."

I avoid buying those instruments. Even if the married-up clarinet is in playable condition and sounds good, the resale value stays in the basement.

No doubt sometimes clarinet marriages work out well, if an instrument gets damaged and someone knowledgable selects a compatible replacement part carefully. Unfortunately, a lot of these marriages are the quickie shotgun variety. I think a lot of them happen in school band rooms. The band teacher at a school with a tight budget keeps wrecked school instruments as "parts horns" and mixes the salvagable sections as well as possible. Repair shops perform marriages, too. Some techs are better at arranging matches than others.

Lelia
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