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Re: Good sound is a matter of money

Author: skygardener
Date: 2010-11-25 10:42

Paul- "If you are an early teen who has to do hard labor to be the bread winner for your family, then you don't have the time to fritter away trying to make music. So the basic premise is true. One must start out with some sort of "privileged" background to even be in the discussion.
I agree.
I was not talking about the difference between an R13 and a Tosca. I am talking about the difference between, the school's instrument that gets serviced (barely) once per year and a working Yamaha 250.
I had a student once that needed a clarinet- I told the dad that she can get a reasonable plastic clarinet with a warranty for $350. "Anything cheaper?", he asked. He didn't have the $350, and I could tell that it was not a matter of, "Maybe she will quit in a year. Why waste the money?".
We ended up getting a $200 CSO, and that was the most they could afford- I could tell that he would have loved it to be cheaper. Looking at used clarinets of reasonable quality was more money- and even a cheap clunker taken to be repaired would have ended up at over $200 (NY/NJ area).
This is the level of economy that I am talking about.

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