Author: DougR
Date: 2019-10-12 01:11
Remembering the delight and inspiration I felt at getting a brand-new Noblet in 1958 (still have it, by the way), I can tell you that there's something special about having a brand-new shiny instrument, and that's probably one reason the CSOs sell and the Bundys don't, or don't for very much money--parents probably figure, if I hand my kid a beat-up old horn, he/she won't take it seriously, whereas a shiny NEW one -- ??!!
A lot of this depends on parental ignorance about shiny new crap versus quality but inexpensive used. If it would cost $200 to get an old Bundy playable (which is what it cost me to get a $175 Bundy e-flat working right) plus a certain amount of haz-matting to get the decades of bad hygiene scrubbed off it (which can be a considerable disincentive to buy a student horn that old), the calculation to buy a CSO almost makes sense. Add to that a decrepit case that looks tatty and probably smells (and may, like my Eb case, have generations-old Strawberry Shortcake friendship stickers plastered all over it), and purchase of a CSO almost makes sense (again, in an ignorant sort of way).
Which leaves them for us, to purchase ultra-cheap for backup horns, or outdoor horns, or (in my case) low-rent entree into the world of Eb playing.
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