Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-08-06 03:15
Well, see, you have to look at it in terms of economics, of market forces, of consumer demand, and cause-and-effect. If more kids were demanding to play the oboe, then there'd be more parents shopping for oboes, and there'd be more parents demanding cheaper oboes than what's currently available, and thus there would be more woodwind manufacturers stepping up to the plate to fill in the gaps in the market and supply the cheaper oboes that more and more parents were demanding.
But without the "demand" to begin with, nothing happens. That's how Capitalism with a big C works. And since the oboe is such a difficult and frequently frustrating instrument to learn, especially for children, there just aren't that many kids demanding oboes.
Kids don't decide to learn an instrument simply because it's cheap. If that were true, then we'd have every kid on the block playing a plastic soprano recorder. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
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