How about picking out a student cello?!

shennie
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:28:10 +0000

I think that most kids audition on cellos in the 10-20 K range and end up upgrading some time as under grads. There are a number of students, I am sure, starting conservatory with much more expensive instruments. My son upgraded this past year to an istrument valued in the low 20s and will likely need to go even higher at some point. And he owns a new instrument, not an old one. The older ones usually go for much more.

And then there are bows. Who would think that a piece of wood with some horsehair on it would cost so much? Top of the line new bows run around 5000. Antique bows can run to the many, many thousands of dollars.