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Re: Is Buffet raising prices?

Author: TomS
Date: 2019-12-09 21:44

Back 50+ years ago, all of the top clarinets (Leblanc LL, R13, Series 9 and 10 ...etc) had a list price of $400-$450. (Selmer Mark 6 alto sax was $600)

No one usually got a discount, you just paid list price. Families had savings for such things! Families had (one) good income! Families ate dinner together! People didn't waste 10 hours per day staring at an iPhone! Don't get me started ...!!

If you were a college student and your professor had connections, you could get an R13 for about $300! Buffets in my area (Arkansas) were almost unheard of until you got to some universities, and found out about the Buffets.

The clarinet of choice was the LL, in the 1960s, in HS.

Tom

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