Eric Dannewitz wrote:
I disagree. If you have an instrument, like this clarinet, which is
basically not worth anything (go look it up on Ebay), then rather than
throwing it in a landfill, making it a work of art or of function is a
great thing. I have a clarinet lamp. I also have a great wall art thing
which is based around an old C melody sax. Why throw it out when it can
still live on as something else?
Seriously though, that clarinet isn't worth fixing up. A repadding job
on a clarinet can cost upwards of $450. You can get a new clarinet for
that much.
A repadding job can cost $450, but it certainly doesn't have to.
I'm a repairman with 30 years experience in the field, member of
Napbirt, self-employed, and I charge $120 to repad a clarinet. No
polishing of keys, just removing the keys, washing them off, removing
and replacing the tenon corks, replacing the key corks, replacing the
pads, replacing any springs which need replacing.
The whole job takes just under 2 hours, which at my $50/hour labor
charge works out to just under $100 for labor and the rest is the cost
of the supplies.
In any event, that old clarinet wouldn't be worth fixing up unless
someone wanted to play it. But as for making it into a lamp, I'm torn
on the subject. Without looking at instrument I wouldn't say outright
that it should be made into a lamp, but I have been known to turn dogs
of instruments into lamps and haven't felt a single twinge of guilt.
Just because an instrument exists doesn't mean it's musically
worthwhile. Thousands (millions?) of Chinese instruments prove this
each day time and again.
--
David H. Bailey
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