Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2014-12-15 17:57
In my amateur experience as a flea market cockroach, the lowest of low-end plastic student clarinets (and other musical instruments) depreciate immediately to a fraction of their original prices. I've been warned by the repairman at a local music store, where I've done some trading, never to bring him any of the least expensive models of plastic clarinets to trade, because if he wanted them, he could get them for next to nothing, in bulk, at school clear-out auctions, or from parents trying to trade up.
He particularly warned me against the Chinese clarinets with the bright red plastic pads, which he can't (and wouldn't, anyway) buy at school auctions because the local school band teachers know better than to buy them for the schools. He says the teachers take care to warn parents against those extra-cheapies and that stocking them would damage his store's reputation. People who buy those clarinet-shaped objects new will find they're almost impossible to sell used at any price, even at yard sales.
If I were buying a new clarinet for a student, I'd stick to well-known brands and models with good reputations, sold by dealers in musical instruments, not from a discount department store offering the lowest prices on no-name brands. For myself, I'd buy the highest-quality instrument my budget could stand as long as that instrument suits me personally. I've followed the same rule with the used clarinets I've bought. Regardless of the resale value later on, right now I have to practice on this instrument and I don't want it frustrating me. I can frustrate myself enough without that kind of help!
Lelia
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