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Author: Jaysne
Date: 2012-10-24 19:43
I'm an elementary/middle school band director and my thinking is that a kid should be allowed to play the instrument he or she wants to play.
I had a 4th grade girl a few years ago who was dying to play oboe (her mom had played it) and I tried to persuade her to start on flute, because I feared oboe was going to be too difficult. I said, play flute for a year and then it'll be much easier to switch to oboe. She would have none of it and neither would her mom. (Truth be told, I was also afraid of how one out-of-tune oboe can make the entire band sound bad.) I ended up caving in, and she actually did all right.
With a year of clarinet under your son's belt and being an older kid, I think it's fine for him to try oboe. The worst that will happen is that he'll realize it's not for him and lose a bit of time.
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