Author: Matt74
Date: 2018-04-16 00:03
It’s not really the kid’s fault, they don’t know any better. I don’t know who is handing out most of the advice, but I’m sure not enough kids have private teachers. I sold my R-13 (about $500 too cheap, apparently), and kept getting emails from parents saying how it was what their band directors said they should have. I’ve seen on here many students worried they could not make first chair or all-state without having a pro Buffet. I still have two unsold completely overhauled Vitos, which are great student horns, because nobody wants to pay more than $150, while at the same time they will pay $300+ for Yamahas in any condition (Yamahas are great, but it’s an old student horn that probably leaks like a seive). Everybody has to have a something-13 mouthpiece. I’ve said it before but ligature prices are obscene.
It was not totally different when I was a kid. Everybody smirked at my Buescher Alto, AND dismissed my blisteringly mint SA-80, because you were not serious without a “Mark VI”, and if it had been relacquered you were relegated to a lower caste. My teacher had me get a Moennig barrel, to solve no apparent problem. The one I got was too short. I felt inferior because I did not play #5 alto reeds. My best friend, an excellent musician, got this awful Dukoff for soprano, and did NOT sound like Kenny G. At the same time I suffered for years trying to play low “C”s on my flute, while the footjoint was almost falling off loose, and I thought it was me. Ditto clarinet regulation.
LOL
- Matthew Simington
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