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keefy
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Hi everyone. My 10 year son plays piano and has requested to learn the clarinet at school also. I am after some advice on what brand to buy and money is an issue. Am i better off with a second hand Yamaha for example, or try a cheaper brand as those found on Ebay (please don't be offended). Many thanks.
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Bam-Bam
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if you want a good clarinet thats cheap I would go with a selmer. I got one around two years ago and it only cost me $750 for a new one and it plays really well
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Toni
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Ahhhh....I remember my first clarinet. When we got my first clarinet (around 7 years ago) my dad decided that it would be much cheaper to rent a used instrument from a music store. Personally, I think that buying the instrument would probably be cheaper. Of course the school had ties to the popular music stores back then, and allowed each student to have his or her own plan to pay for the instrument. I do agree that Selmer clarinets are good, but I think that Yamaha clarinets probably make better beginners' instruments. I advise you to check for good deals on different clarinets, but do consider the instrument that will give your son the best foundation for his future with the clarinet.
-Toni
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laeta_puella
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vitos are legitimate instruments for beginners, too- i still have mine from 5th grade, we got it fixed once in like 6th grade because i was a stupid elementary school kid, but since then it hasn't needed any service at all even with a year of marching it, including getting dropped on the asphault (my cork grease melted). i don't know how much mine was becuase we did that rent to own thing (which ends up making it more expensive than buying it outright)
in general you're probably better off going with a beginner instrument from a reputable brand, even second-hand, than a cheap ebay instrument, because lots are made in china or places like that and are very poor quality. if you find someone on ebay that sounds like a real person selling their beginner clarinet for whatever reason (got a new one, etc) thats one thing, but there's a lot of crap on there, and if you don't know much about clarinets its harder to tell if the things writtten about it even make sense.
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jvanullen
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Look into a Buffet B12. It's what I started on and I loved it. It served me well until 10th grade, when I upgraded to an R13. Their mechanisms and eveness of scale are up with some other wooden intermediate models.
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