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Author: JamaalCharles39
Date: 2015-06-22 21:19
To buy only clarinet related stuff, what would you get?
You must spend from 95,000 to 100,000 or everything disappears. Also this stuff is only for YOU, no selling or giving away.
Tosca Bass clarinet: 13,000
Buffet Prestige Bass clarinet Greenline: 11,000
Selmer Model 67 Bass" 13,000
Selmer model 22 Alto clarinet: 10000
Selmer Recital Bb clarinet 5000
LeBlanc paperclip contrabass clarinet: 5000
Buffet Divine A+Bb: 15,000
Patricola C clarinet (Grenedilla): 3500
Paatricola Rosewood Bb clarinet: 4000
Buffet Basset Clarinet: 8000
Mouthpieces from Vandoren, Selmer, Behn, Garrett, Grabner, Fobes, Theo Wayne, and JodyJazz: Probably around 8,000
Reeds from Vandoren, Rico, Marca, Rigotti, Alexander: Probably around 2,000
Barrels from Backun and Buffet: 1000
Total: 98500
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-06-22 22:05
I'd like to know who here has already spent $100K on clarinet stuff, and how they did it. From other posts here, sounds like you could get a good start by spending over $1000 on a worthless student horn from certain music stores.
Stan in Orlando
EWI 4000S with modifications
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Author: davyd
Date: 2015-06-22 22:35
I don't see an Eb soprano, Eb contra alto, or F basset horn on the shopping list. Do the mouthpieces include caps and ligatures? What about instrument stands, heavy duty cases, swabs, oils, etc?
Being able to set up the equivalent of a medical Flexible Spending Account for repairs would be nice.
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Author: JamaalCharles39
Date: 2015-06-23 00:12
Ehh... Sorry my list isnt the exact same yours would be. I guess that the stuff comes with what it comes with on whatever website you buy from.
I guess if you can pre-pay for lessons and repairs you could.
Post Edited (2015-06-23 00:15)
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Author: RAL
Date: 2015-06-23 01:12
US$ 5,000 would only pay for a couple of months renting a place to stay when the wife throws me and US$ 95k worth of clarinet stuff out of the house...
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2015-06-23 01:25
I'd definitely buy at least 2 low-c basses, plus a pro-line eefer. I would absolutely ADORE a high-a-flat too! I'd probably also get a set of either Toscas or Divines. I would also buy some new cases for my old instruments (I have several Albert system clarinets who are insufficiently protected), a low-G wooden horn (Orsi if I could find one), and have my Borbeck mouthpiece refaced. I would also get an O'Brien crystal mouthpiece.
Also: Get my Bb Full Boehm restored and find and get an A Full Boehm. Oh and an Eb FB too!
I'd get some lessons from Ivo Papasov too. The flight from USA to Bulgaria would have to be included.
Almost forgot about getting a basset extension for my A (not necessarily my current A clarinet...the Divine or Tosca...Or I'd get an R13 I prefer to mine...)
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Author: kthln.hnsn
Date: 2015-06-23 05:04
Hmm I'd buy a new eefer, a bass clarinet, and A. I'd spend the rest on fixer upper clarinets and repair supplies, and sell them for a profit. Or really just for fun IMO.
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Author: JamaalCharles39
Date: 2015-06-23 05:39
Read the second paragraph again.
Well... Its 5000 dollars you didnt have previously so unless you are about to be kicked out of the house then it shouldnt really matter. Unless you wife just really hates clarinet related stuff.
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Author: JHowell
Date: 2015-06-23 07:56
It would be EASY. Even without buying spares, which I'd do. I'd buy a pair of Buffet Prestige bassets, Prestiges in C and D, a Greenline set for outdoors, Greenline bass for same. Got to be over 50 large right there. Tosca bass or two, new eefer, now close to 80. Maybe a Selmer bass, or maybe a couple of them and no Toscas. Wiseman carbon cases for everything, if there's anything left stock up on reeds.
If you figure new replacement cost for everything, I'm probably halfway there now,before mouthpieces, with current stock, and I doubt I'm unusual. Could be worse, could be a string player. Or a bassoonist. Or a doubler.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2015-06-23 08:15
You ain't kidding on the doubling...I have several other instruments laying around here that I'd upgrade if it weren't limited to clarinets!
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Author: MSK
Date: 2015-06-24 02:55
Can you buy a conservatory education with the 100 grand?
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Author: Filettofish
Date: 2015-06-24 22:32
Psssh, a doubler could blow that in no time flat. Three saxes and a bass clarinet would eat up almost half that money.
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Author: DougR
Date: 2015-06-25 02:35
What a fun game! I'll play.
First, overhauls on everything I have. Pro-quality by the most gifted clarinet technician in the country.
Then, a brand-new Selmer low-C bass. Bought AT the factory, IN Paris, and I will NOT be staying in some grubby youth hostel while I'm there, so that's gonna cost.
And, like Katrina, a G-alto clarinet, which may necessitate either a trip to the Orsi factory or a trip to Turkey to a maker there.
Then, a pair of the best-available late model Boosey 1010s, for that 'English' sound.
Then, a full-boehm Eefer, probably Selmer.
Then, full-Boehm Selmers, a matched set, because more keys = cooler.
Of course, the best current basset horn, either Buffet or Selmer.
Would have to (out of the imperatives of Due Diligence, this is a holy mission after all) check out Bakun clarinets. Easy to spend a chunk of the 100k that way.
OH! and one of those things Scott Robinson plays--it looks like a grenadilla cigar box with a metal neck pipe and bell. Octo-something.
Several C-clarinets. (Why several? Why not! it's MY imaginary money, after all!!)
A handful of ACTUAL Kasper mouthpieces, good ones, the ones we all laugh at when they come on the market because the prices are so inconceivable.
If that doesn't wipe out $100k, I'd use whatever's left to pay someone to do the crap i have to do in life that takes away from my practice time.
Unfortunately, this kind of 'wish-listing' only goes so far. (Which model Ferrari would you get, with an imaginary fortune? is one part of the wish-list; the other part we never entertain is, and how would you pay for repairs, maintenance, insurance, and garage space?)
Great game, though. Thanks for thinking of it.
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Author: Mirko996
Date: 2015-06-25 03:29
I think I could have 100'000€
I will buy a full boehm, especialy:
e flat full boehm clarinet (around 1'200€ used);
b flat full boehm clarinet (I prefer selmer: 600€ or up: depend).
i would like buy wurlitzer clarinet (with e flat low, i don't know the price but it could be near 2'000€ new...)
Alto clarinet Selmer (8'001€ with vat, i hope to find used with e flat low);
bass clarinet selmer (I think is 10'000€ but I will buy it used, so it could be near 5'000€);
I don't think I will spent a lot of money for a mouthpiece... I'm searching a Brilhart and nothing else: I have a lot of mouthpiece and i find the mouthpiece for me (so, 120€ or low);
The same is for the reeds... I would like buy some plastic reeds but I think to have the necessary for play now (so 0€...).
My total could be:
22'121€ or 17'121€.
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