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Re: Clarinets & College

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2010-09-16 20:26

My basic tips are to work what's best for YOU, in YOUR budget. Instructors sometimes are biased towards one clarinet or other. And a big RED FLAG in your post is that the teacher offered to finance it through the department?!?! Wow. Not too hard to recommend getting a new instrument when YOUR department would benefit from the interest paid on it......

If you're looking for a new clarinet, Tom Ridenour has a great article on how to choose a clarinet. My personal suggestions are, as you are still young in the college (a freshman), and can't be quite sure where you'll be auditioning yet, I would stick with a good quality used instrument. "Quality Used Instrument" means picking one that falls in line with what Tom's article says.

And like Franklin said above, you'd be better off buying a used instrument that's very good and sending it to a very reputable tech to have it professionally adjusted/overhauled. So you figure you buy a good USED clarinet (let's say around 1/2 price to 2/3 price of a new one), send it to a tech to get completely overhauled (on the EXPENSIVE side we're talking about 500 bucks), and for LESS than the price of a new instrument, you have a solid used one that is freshly redone and will probably play BETTER than a brand new one out of the box.

I hope I confused you enough! [wink]

Alexi

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