Author: gwie
Date: 2018-02-14 22:27
Factor in though, that while some of us work in areas where we enjoy a relative diversity in instrument brands in both education and performance areas, there are still many places where showing up with a professional clarinet other than an R-13 (with allowances for others in the same bore family, e.g. Festival, Tosca, etc.) invites all the usual nonsense about "oh, our tuning is not going to work" and "are you sure that is going to blend well with this section" and "real professionals only play Buffet," ad nauseam.
There's nothing wrong with going with tried and true. If a student shows up at a lesson with a decent R-13 and a Vandoren mouthpiece that functions (and isn't a 5JB or something on the extremes of facings), then we can forget about discussing hardware and work on fundamental right away. I often tell parents, "if you don't want to go down this rabbit hole of instrument trials, you can simply go with the mainstream standard and not worry about it." Peer pressure at K-12 schools can really suck, and while I could not care any less what anyone thinks about my own hardware, I'm not comfortable getting my students to wave that banner as well, given the social pressures they have to put up with.
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