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My clarinet is an old Leblanc Symphonie. It's been a SUPER axe for me. However, someone knocked it off a bandstand and left it unplayable. Given it's age I was worried that it couldn't be fixed... There aren't a lot of replacement parts for a clarinet made in the 50's. However in the end a tech got it going for... ... $12! I was relieved to say the least.
That's when things got wierd. The same repair guy suggested that my horn was 'pretty good in its day', but a lot of advances have been made since. Even though there aren't any cracks in the body, and my clarinet is considered a 'professional quality' instrument (whatever the devil that means) , he thought I should scrap it and buy a Buffet E-11 from him. I was a little taken aback. And he was quite serious. Wadday'all think?
That's when things got wierd. The same repair guy suggested that my horn was 'pretty good in its day', but a lot of advances have been made since. Even though there aren't any cracks in the body, and my clarinet is considered a 'professional quality' instrument (whatever the devil that means) , he thought I should scrap it and buy a Buffet E-11 from him. I was a little taken aback. And he was quite serious. Wadday'all think?