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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2001-06-08 02:19
<img src:="http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/guitarbroker/WoodClarinet.JPG" align="left"><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1436285126"> Click here to see the left-handed clarinet auction on e-Bay!</a><p> These always tickle me! Buy it now so you can have a clarinet to teach students with. They will find it easy to copy fingerings when looking at a mirror image clarinet!</P>
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Author: Sara
Date: 2001-06-08 02:31
That is the strangest thing that I have ever seen, I would get so confused trying to play one of those I bid on one of those last week and I didn't even notice!
hehehehe
Sara
Oh and isn't it great the titles people pick, check out this' oboe clarinet', hehehehe
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Author: Mindy
Date: 2001-06-08 03:22
That is sooo weird. I don't know how I could even play on that. It would be so hard It's funny though.
Mindy
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Author: jerry
Date: 2001-06-08 11:20
Don't suppose the image is reversed do you? But what do I know about clarinets, or digital cameras for that mater. Is there any written info on it to be able to tell if the image is reversed?
~ jerry
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Author: Pam
Date: 2001-06-08 12:15
Look at the other pictures. They look like normal. My guess is that the main picture is reversed.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-06-08 13:58
Reversed, YES, I agree. Look at the UJ-LJ pic, very normal!! sounds like a Selmer barrel [or bell] and Conn joints. The only thing I see going for it is the 7th ring for "ring" finger Left hand to give yet another Eb/Bb [1st step toward a Full Boehm]. In the serial #, L is for "low pitch" and the wrap-around register key also dates it to early 1900s, perhaps late 1800s !!! CAVAET EMPTOR. Don
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-06-08 14:57
I find the whole concept of a "left-handed clarinet" (should such a beast actually exist) to be rather ridiculous, considering that most of the world is right-handed, yet (if you think about it a bit) many of the more difficult fingerings are performed using the left pinky finger on the three spatulas. So, in that sense, the ordinary clarinet is designed better for lefties anyway!
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Author: Kathy
Date: 2001-06-08 15:54
Okay, I'll beat Mark Charette to this one, Dave. Here is proof that such a beast exists:
http://www.avrahm-galper.sneezy.org/left-handed.html
Kathy
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-06-08 16:45
Do you remember that in the VERY oldies, the 1, 2 and 3 keyers, that the lowest "key" had "wings" , so it could be played with either little finger, similar to the reed-up players of yester-years?? Ah, progress??? Don
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Author: Anne-Marie
Date: 2001-06-08 17:06
If an instrument needs 2 hands to be played, why would it matter if it is made for left-handed people or not?
My 9 years old son is left handed and started guitar lessons in January. The big decision I had to make was if I start him on a right-hand or left-hand guitar. To help me make a good decision, I spoke with a few left handed people that whom I know play the guitar : some of them told me that guitar is awkward to learn no matter if you play left-handed or right-handed so my son might as well start right-handed because it will be easier to find a teacher and work with a teacher (unless the teacher plays left-handed) and it will be easier for him to sell his guitars and also to buy some. My son also has some minor "motor skills" difficulties.
Anyways, I have started him on a right-hand guitar and had a good discussion with the teacher about additional challenges he has to face, and after 6 months of lessons, he is doing as well as the others.
Why would you need a left-handed clarinet anyways?
An how would you build a left-handed piano?
Anne-Marie
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Author: jerry
Date: 2001-06-08 17:19
Anne-Marie,
I agree..............kinda like a left-handed fork.
I wonder if there is a left-handed harmonica.
~ jerry
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Author: darby
Date: 2001-06-09 21:03
Hello, Darby here...
The clarinet you're all enjoying is a right handed clarinet. The picture is reversed.
I live in Phoenix where the horn is being sold and have had the opportunity to "try" playing it. The upper joint and lower joint are CONN while the barrel is a SELMER.
I'm not sure of the bell. It is the same color wood, but has a fuzzy set of wings and the words trade mark below.
I can tell those of you interested in bidding on the horn, that it needs all new pads and cork. The keys are rather sloppy and several don't work at all. The additional ring key is risky at best and has been jerry-rigged with some small screws at the mounting. The bore of the horn is rough and looks splintered. I'm not even sure if an overhaul would make this an intrument you'd want to own.
I just thought a more adequate description was in order for those looking at this as a potential back up clarinet. BUYER BEWARE as they say.
Darby
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2001-06-09 22:17
I started this thread because I thought the reversed photo was typical of some of the silly things you see on e-Bay. Your story about this horn sounds familiar. Hasn't this piece of fine craftsmanship been offered over and over? I guess we will keep seeing it until someone gets stung!
Terry
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