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Re: A Clarinet Questions

Author: donald
Date: 2019-12-17 12:43

I had a Grassi A clarinet (student horns from the 1960s/70s, wooden with nickel keys). Here in NZ you used to be able to find heaps of the Grassi B flat clarinets but this was the only A clarinet I ever saw.
A man came around to buy a car I had put in the Newspaper for $800 (about $600 more than it was worth). He said "hey I'll give you $200 and throw in something that you may be able to sell, it's what they call an "A clarinet""
This guy had no idea that I was a musician, but for some reason had old wooden Grassi A clarinet that I was later able to sell for... $800!!!!! (about $500 US$)
Another A clarinet that came my way was an Uebel from the 1970s- Boehm system (with double pad for f/c). Some of these are of awful quality, but this one was very well built and played nicely in tune with a really distinctive tone quality. I bought that for $900 and sold it for $900 a year later (sold to a Jazzer who wanted an A clarinet to play in guitar friendly keys).
In each case I was just lucky to find these, they just randomly came my way at a time when I could afford to buy them, and a new owner appeared a year or so later.
Every so often someone comes along asking "hey do you have a spare A clarinet you can rent/lend/sell me... and of course these days I never have one lying around....

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