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Author: Alan Tucker
Date: 2002-12-13 10:07
As an experienced sax player who doubles on clarinet I should have known better...but... I bought this (allegedly) " VINTAGE SMALL CLARINET" off ebay. It looked like an Albert system Eb clarinet, and the quoted length was about right
The photo showed an old case, joints wound with thread etc., but on arrival it proved to be an "Indian" replica, probably slapped together in a back alley in Bangladesh. :-))
I (modestly) fix up these things, so it'll be a challenge to get it playable - I can get a note or two out of it with a cut-down soprano sax reed and it is in E-flat'ish - anyway it's a conversation piece, and it'll confuse the heck out of someone if I ever produce it at a gig ! Good for snake charming, I reckon. Or maybe a few over-dubs on a "Bollywood" movie.
a) Has anyone ever heard of "Jazz Studio" imports, and,
b) Buyer beware, I thought I was clued-up, but not this time.....
Go on, tell me I should have known better, Alan.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-12-13 14:23
You are not alone, Alan, I have a shiny, early Albert-Muller COPY [POOR] on my display board, the red thread should have been my warning!! Happily its a very small investment. Don
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Author: larryb
Date: 2002-12-13 15:45
Mark -
Please end this thread - the original posting displays a willful cultural, geographic, and ethnic ignorance and streotyping bordering on Trent Lott's racism.
Thanks.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-12-13 19:56
Indeed you are not alone, Alan. Nobody here can "should" on you. Most of us have done the equivalent at some time in our personal histories Look at the number of people who continue to bid on these 'vintage' replicas. Keep it as a souvenir. You might make it playable, but I doubt it will remain so for long. I've seen a couple of 'em. Conversational/display pieces at best.
Larry B -
I know you addressed your resoponse to Mark, but I can't refrain from slipping a comment in. I don't find anything remotely relative to Trent Lott's attitude in Alan's statement. We're talking about CHEAP GOODS exported from India and/or China. That's racist??? Well, if identifying bum clarinets - inantimate objects - is ethnically ignorant or racially stereotyping I was sound asleep during anthropology class.
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Author: larryb
Date: 2002-12-13 20:10
ron b -
you don't need to take a college anthropology course to know when someone is using code words to denigrate an entire culture (south asian): "Indian", "back-alley in Bangledesh", "snake charmer" - sure, these are the images conjurred up in the mind of a superior, smug western intellect about cheap, eastern products. Maybe you should have turned in that term paper about Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" after all.
At least you seem to recognize Trent Lott's racism.
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Author: anon
Date: 2002-12-14 03:31
Gee larryb
Aren't you the guy that started the "Tacky at the Philharmonic" thread?
You must be one unhappy dude!
Lighten Up
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Author: Mark Charette, Webmaster
Date: 2002-12-14 04:42
The thread has served its point; adding anything at this point won't educate us further on the cheap, shoddy manufacturer of "Jazz Student" clarinets, where ever they're located.
The thread is closed.
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