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 Re: Why buy new instead of used?
Author: SunnyDaze 
Date:   2022-04-08 21:07

Hi Graham,

Thanks for giving all that detailed information. I think it's really huge help for people who are considering spending a lot of money on an instrument.

I do think that buying a clarinet can be a real minefield for adult learners like me. Here is a bit of my experience in case it helps answer the question from the OP about why people buy new.

When I bought my new Yamaha I only did it under great pressure from many technicians who said my old instrument was absolutely beyond the pale, and not salvagable. I had had it repadded three times and still couldn't get it to do what it needed to do to get me through the grade 2 exam.

I got the new one on loan from the shop to play test for a week, and took both instruments to a professional player to test. She said that I should certainly take the new one back and keep the good old instrument, and not upgrade until I got to grade 8. She said the old one was a wonderful, irreplacable gem and I shouldn't let it out of my hands. (It does have a lovely tone, in fairness.)

I had a lot of agonising to do that week to work out whether to keep the new instrument and Hank Lehrer on this forum very kindly helped me to work it all out over email.

Looking back, I realise now that the old instrument was genuinely unplayable, and totally out of tune, in spite of it's lovely tone. I couldn't get the pinkie keys to sound more than one in three attempts and I hadn't actually thought to try it again a digital tuner at all. Having always played string instruments before, I didn't really realise that a clarinet could be out of tune.

I only mention all this, because this shows how hard it is for adult learners to tell a good used instrument from a bad one.
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