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 It's baaaaaaaack!!! (ebay)
Author: Ted Donaldson 
Date:   2002-08-03 18:01

Remember this baby?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=897447083

Very, very nice... opps, better wipe the drool off of my keyboard...

Look at the mouthpiece though...

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 RE: It's baaaaaaaack!!! (ebay)
Author: David Pegel 
Date:   2002-08-03 21:12

???

What is that? A clarinet? A saxophone? what?

If I had $250, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

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 RE: It's baaaaaaaack!!! CRIME AGAINST MUSIC
Author: Patrick 
Date:   2002-08-03 21:16

Ted,

I remember this unique Linton nickel-silver contrabass clarinet appearing on Ebay a while back. The current seller appears to have taken pains to conceal the nature of the keywork in his photos, which I recall was saxophone-like, but to me, the keywork was part of the uniqueness and charm of this beautiful instrument.

Another thing I remember was that this contra clarinet had a truly enormous and wonderful mouthpiece, which if I believe had been photographed with a Pepsi can for scale. They were about the same size...

The current owner did not appreciate what he bought, I guess...and that's why he's selling.

But why, oh why did he do this: There has been an ABSOLUTELY TRAGIC MUTILATION OF THAT POSSIBLY UNIQUE "PEPSI CAN" MOUTHPIECE. The beak of the original mouthpiece was HACKED OFF, converting it into a TENON SLEEVE for what appears to be a plastic bass clarinet mouthpiece.

If the guy wanted to use a smaller mouthpiece, why not get a tenon sleeve made from some PVC some cork, and some teflon tape? He destroyed a possibly extremely valuable and one-of-a-kind mouthpiece for a possibly one-of-a-kind instrument. DISGUSTING.

Thanks for the alert; hopefully the guy left the rest of the horn alone!

Regards,
Patrick

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