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Re: First Clarinet help needed

Author: Dee
Date: 2004-11-30 13:41

Unless he is going to pursue music as a career or a lifelong hobby a good quality student plastic horn (Leblanc, Buffet, Selmer, Yamaha) will get him all the way through high school. However he will need a better mouthpiece than that which comes with the horn. The mouthpiece is more important than the horn itself (and much cheaper) so long as one does have a decent quality instrument and not some clarinet shaped piece of junk. Proper maintenance is also required. Many student horns are prematurely retired when all they really need is some new pads and corks.

Now if he is going to pursue music as a career or part time career, early high school is a good time to upgrade as by then the student should have a better understanding of the care required for the instrument. It certainly wouldn't hurt to make him earn half or more of the cost of the instrument either.

If he is going to pursue this as a hobby as an adult but not as a career, he can buy his own quality horn later unless you wish to and can afford to do so.

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