How about picking out a student cello?!

BassDad
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:31:57 +0000

My daughter frequently gets comments when carting around her bass, a stool, a music stand and her concert attire. “Don’t you wish you played the flute?” is the most common and usually rates an icy stare these days. One of her favorites was, “Is that a trombone in there?”

My wife plays flute professionally and our experience is that the cost of maintenance and repairs on two basses is about equal to that for a dozen or so flutes. Part of that is because it is possible to do some of the simplest work on the flutes ourselves, but anything more complicated than changing strings on a bass requires a large work bench and some fairly expensive tools that you would not normally just have around the house.