Re: [Harp-L] Suzuki's Fabulus....Rant...

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On May 25, 2009, at 11:48 PM, fjm wrote:

> "this is so ridiculous"  Does this mean I'm being ridiculed?

No, not at all. The man said something like "Is it unfair to expect a  
$50.oo harmonica to be playable". And I said 'This is ridiculous".  
Meaning Of COURSE it isn't unfair. It's ridiculous to think that it's  
unfair to expect a reasonably workable product.

> Not trusting Joe's seat of the pants math I went to the inflation  
> calculator and typed in a value of $2.25 and the year 1927.  The  
> closest year to current I could plug in was 2007.  That $2.25  
> Marine Band Deluxe should cost $27.01 in 2007.

But a Marine Band didn't cost $2.25 in 1927. In other words, with  
inflation, IF a Marine Band cost $2.25 in 1927, it would be $27.01  
today. OR, to extrapolate farther: IF a marine band were $.45 (45  
cents) in 1927...which it probably WAS, the cost today would only be  
$5.40. I call your attention to milk, eggs, bread, sugar, flour,  
soup. In the 43 years that I have been married these items have only  
tripled, while diatonics have gone up tenfold. Chromos a little less.  
I was paying $25.oo for a 64 around 1973. So 36 years later, they  
have gone up sevenfold.

>   We all know even a plain Jane Marine Band has a higher list price  
> than that.  I'm not sure what if anything this has to do with the  
> point I was attempting to make but it's interesting. Harmonicas  
> cost more adjusted for inflation than they used to.
>
> I think we still have the same remedy for unplayable harmonicas  
> we've always had.  Send them to the manufacturer and they'll come  
> back adjusted.  I would expect a $50 harmonica to be playable.  I  
> wouldn't expect every single one of them to be the same because  
> experience has taught me they are not.   Mommy Mommy I can't stop  
> running in circles. I'm begining to see why Jeff is frustrated and  
> with that I will bow out of this thread, now and for forever.  fjm  
> I know you are but what am I?
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