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Re: Need an advice

Author: Funfly
Date: 2013-11-04 15:57

Can I butt in with a question of my own here please?

I played the clarinet briefly at the age of 16 but only to grade 1 level.
Now at the age of 75 I have bought a clarinet and have started taking lessons from a private tutor. At the moment I am coming up to grade 2 level and reading music (poorly) although my sounds sometimes upset the local feline population.

I have a Buffet B12 with a B45 mouthpiece and at times I can produce a decent tone. I am obviously old enough to know about taking care of an instrument and don't plan to play outside (or anywhere in public).

Would I get any benefit at all from treating myself to a wooden instrument, for example an E13 or a Yamaha? I assume that I would perhaps not see any difference in tone at my level but would it help at all? Would it perhaps be of negative value and harm my progress? Finance would not be too much of a problem and at my age comments about waiting 5 years will be of little value and I know that I will never be able to progress to anything near performance level.

It seems that it would be nice for me to own a really nice instrument but my concern is that I wouldn't actually be able to play it.

What do you think?

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