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Re: Pleasant surprise

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2016-02-06 18:00

I won't argue with good results, but fair warning -- the "marriages" described here were done deliberately and carefully by people who knew what they were doing and knew what results they wanted. At flea markets and yard sales, I often see (and never buy!) cases with mixed parts from different brands of clarinets. Sometimes these parts won't even fit together into a mutt without major surgery, because the tenons are different diameters, the bridge keys don't align, the upper stack is Albert while the lower stack is Boehm, keys are damaged or missing, etc..

I feel sorry for parents who don't play clarinet themselves and buy these messes under the mistaken impression that they're bargains for young students. Some of these mixtures are so misbegotten that I think they must come from school bands or repair shops that need to get rid of too many bits and pieces kept for parts. Even if a marriage looks as if it makes good sense, such as the one Ben Shaffer's original message describes, I'd only buy something like that under circumstances where I could try it out first.

Lelia
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