From: "John Kilpatrick"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:55:39 -0000
RE EBAY: "Hi all- I wanted to
alert everyone that I listed a very nice set of Leblanc contras (contra
alto and contra bass) on eBay this evening. You can view them at:"
I clicked and got "invalid item". They were not in "completed
items" either. Were they real? recently I saw a Selmer Bass clarinet
which had a familiar look to the auction, being sold from
"France/Canada" or "Canada/France". I email some questions, and the
auction completely disappeared. Were the above real or another scam?
John K
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From: "Lelia Loban"
Subject: [CB] Low Clarinets on eBay
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 07:55:42 -0500
Gregg Bailey asked Matt S.,
>Why are the cases for your ebay contras one-piece?
>In my experience, those instruments break apart in
>the middle and fit into much more compact cases.
For storing contras taken apart at the center, the cases are
more compact, but, "Don't want no short people 'round here." I'm
female and 5 ft. 3 in. tall. When I chose between two contra-alto
clarinets, I was very glad that the one I preferred came with the
extra-long coffin case that lets me store that clarinet without taking
it apart at the center.
That long case is a nuisance to store and would be a nuisance to
take to gigs, no question about it, but I think my clarinet is a lot
safer in that case. It's not that the case is inherently any safer, with
the clarinet stowed inside -- it's just that a contra clarinet is so
fershlugginer huge that I
don't feel confident about taking one apart at the center and putting
it back together without damaging a tenon. It's necessary to hold
those long sections with the arms spread far apart to put and take
without grasping (and risking bending) one of those long, long
rods. My arms aren't long enough and my hands aren't large enough
to grasp the pieces securely and to pull straight out, or to insert A
into B, without wobbling. It would only be a matter of time before I
broke a tenon or bent a rod or a key. I think I'd practice that
clarinet a lot less often if I had to be afraid of wrecking it every
time I played it.
Lelia Loban
Bush defeats Kerry. Lies defeat truth. Jingoism
defeats patriotism.
Superstition defeats science. Bigotry defeats
understanding.
Ignorance defeats reason. The terrorists defeat the U.S.A.
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From: "Matthew Stoecker"
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:27:26 -0800
These auctions are completely real, I assure you. I am an eBay
Platinum powerseller with over 1300 positive feedbacks and no
negatives. If you are uneasy and want to talk to me personally, please
send me your phone number at the_mighty_quinn@msn.com<
mailto:the_mighty_quinn@msn.com>
and I'll give you a call. I suspect that part of the link is getting
cut off by the formatting of your email message. here are the links
again. Please copy them into the address bar of your browser and make
sure that you get all of the text.
Cheers!
Matt
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From: Fred
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:29:26 EST
Subject: Re: [CB] [CB Digest]
In a message dated 11/7/04 1:32:58 PM, Matt writes:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3759671888&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
>>
Matt-
There is also a problem with incompatible mail programs.
Yours uses html, so the address appears to me twice on a line, with
greater-than and less-than symbols included. If the entire line
were pasted into the URL window, an error message would be
expected. I've quoted the addresses above without the html
part. (I verified that they work.)
Still, if my mail program "folds" the line and you paste the
entire line into the URL window, there could be an extraneous space
where the line had folded. If that happens, edit the URL to
delete the space, and it should work.
Fred
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