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 Re: Can We Afford to Have Material Matter?
Author: Fuzzy 
Date:   2017-05-19 23:10

I guess I'm on the other side of the fence...I'd love for there to be 100k options offered. I'd like the market to choose which of those options succeed based on their worth/functionality/performance, personal preference, etc. If the artistic guy cranking out 100 perfect clarinets per year is what the market is looking for - then he will succeed and start pushing some of the others out as he grows.

However, I feel the education/music industry becomes too gear-specific and pushes only "Brand B" - far after "Brand B" quit making the best clarinets. Brand recognition is great, but it seems that (at least for clarinets), brand recognition has helped foster poor quality for too long; and created a false barrier for the competition. This creates an artificial lag where higher quality (or equal quality at lesser cost) instruments are available from other companies - yet those companies are held at a disadvantage due to a programmed bias towards the earlier make. The lag is extended...partially by instructors like we've seen recently on the BBoard - telling students to go into debt in order to "get the brand"...that the student is being held back by their gear, and the only solution is "Brand B", etc. This serves to artificially prolong "Brand B's" success and viability - past when the product offered might not be as good as other brands. Cottage industries have even broken out to fill the gap: folks earning income for filtering "Brand B" and modifying "Brand B" prior to the customer even receiving the instrument.

That's not entirely normal.

I can't imagine buying a new car, but having to have a pro go select one for me - then customize it - just to get it to perform the way it should as compared to other manufacturer's cars coming straight from the factory. That would be odd. I don't see that kind of car company being successful, or being recommended by people for very long. Yet, in the clarinet world, we've come to accept this as "normal." That's just odd to me.

Fuzzy
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