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Prospective E-Flat Clarinet Purchase

Author: maiohmai
Date: 2017-04-06 02:08

I am potentially buying an E-flat (sopranino) Clarinet from a great friend of mine this upcoming June. It's an R13, which was purchased around 2008. I don't have the serial number, but she has told me in the past that it was manufactured circa 2005-6 as she bought it barely used and fairly new.

It's a wonderful instrument and I had the pleasure of being able to borrow it in my undergrad for our Wind Ensemble and Orchestra concerts, so I am quite comfortable and extremely happy with it.

She is looking to sell it to me, but we had a strange exchange on what the price should be (both being inexperienced in used instrument pricing.) Seeing that R13 Efers are being sold for +$5000 now, and that she bought it for $3000 at the time, I suggested possibly $2000 perhaps since it's barely used and still practically new... and she said she'd do more research herself so the price isn't set and stone.

It's in absolutely great condition, no cork work or pad work needs to be done and I absolutely would love to have it in my arsenal. However, is the price that i gave out overshot or undershot? What would be a decent pricing for a used Efers of the Mid 2000's that's in excellent condition? I've tried finding more info on Ebay, Amazon Hollis and Germann, TWeir, but yielding no results...

Any advice or references will help! Thanks for reading!

On the road to a non-collapsing embouchure!

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