Author: Max S-D
Date: 2021-02-15 00:52
As a contrasting opinion, you might want to contact the school you'll be attending and see if they have an A clarinet you could borrow when you need it. I lucked into a good deal on a lightly used A clarinet that ended up being a great instrument when I went to college, but some of the people I went to school with and friends that went to other schools just checked an A clarinet out from the school for orchestra rehearsals and concerts.
Obviously if you want to play in an orchestra after college, you'll need an A eventually, but I can say that, as someone who did not end up playing in orchestras much at all after college, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have played an A clarinet in public in the last 11 years. I play mostly chamber music, jazz and I guess you'd call it experimental music, but have also worked in pit orchestras and other "functional" kinds of music like that. The A clarinet basically never comes up. I actually make sure that I pull it out and practice scales on it to ensure that it doesn't need to go through a "break in" process next time I do need it.
If playing in orchestras isn't really part of your post-college plan, you might want to look into ways of putting off buying the A clarinet until you're sure that you need to, at least if buying the instrument will be a hardship.
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