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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 176149, member: 51&quot;]Can&#039;t help you with the value on this, but I&#039;ll share my clarinet story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Daughter was in school band, we had just gotten an estimate on monthly rental of clarinet, ($35 a month) same weekend I&#039;m at a garage sale and in what I thought was great timing, find an old one for $25 with the case and all the accessories, thinking I&#039;m going to save a year&#039;s worth of rentals.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to say that the one photographed here looks to be a much newer instrument, but turns out there are a lot of things that can go wrong with a clarinet that are not visible to the eye.&nbsp; And a general rule of thumb (this quote from a clarinet teacher) &quot;Clarinets do not appreciate with age&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Although everything looked perfect, in my case the clarinet I purchased was basically &quot;wall art&quot;.&nbsp; To repair would have cost a couple hundred, and resulting value minimal.&nbsp; We rented one, and I sold the garage sale instrument w/case on Ebay for $20.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a fortunate turn of events, there were two items in the case that wound up being worth money.&nbsp; A glass mouthpiece ($70) and a gold ligature ($80).&nbsp; That was just dumb luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for this one if you are selling in person, and a clarinet player can try it, you&#039;re probably fine. And this looks to be a much nicer and newer model than what I had.&nbsp; But if you are listing online, you might need to determine if it is in full working condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best of luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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