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Re: Review rant

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2021-01-05 18:34

Kalashnikirby wrote:

> Regarding prices back them.... adjusted for inflation, 200$ in
> 1960 are around 1600-1800$ today.... which still isn’t much.
> Which is exactly why good reviews should definitely take
> pricing into account. 20$ from back than shouldn’t be more
> than 200$ today and as such it’s easy to see why paying 4
> times of that for a mouthpiece is insane, given that
> productivity has increased anyways.

In many ways, the clarinet world has only been catching up to the rest of of the woodwinds and the strings. Because, I suppose, there's more assembly line involved in clarinet production and less hand work, our instruments have historically been much less expensive than comparable oboes, flutes and bassoons or any high quality string instrument. Compare the prices of high quality bows to the price even now of high-end mouthpieces. The result, of course, is that other players don't flit so much from one product to another as do clarinetists.
>
> OT: I‘m really amazed that you guys could as well be my
> grandparents and don’t struggle with a computer and even use
> emojis or „LOL“

Hats off!

I, for one, was playing with and using computers in the 1980 when the newest thing for office use was a Z-80 processor running CPM or TRSDOS and the biggest thing in home computers was the Commodore 64. Probably before you were even born. So don't be amazed. Age and technology are not mutually exclusive. [tongue]

Karl

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