How about picking out a student cello?!

Allmusic
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:52:48 +0000

We live in Boston and have lots of good string companies nearby.

This isn’t like a piano for me tho, an instrument I played and DS plays at such a high level; we can hear sound and feel touch nuance among different pianos by the same manufacturer. I can’t do that with cellos. Thanks for Shennie for the name to avoid.

Bassdad, good to know that the rental price wasn’t outrageous. Would you think renting another year makes sense? By then we are $7-800 into a cruddy little rental cello. Seems crazy for an instrument that isn’t of great quality, but as I said, strings are so not my domain.

With our other instruments, we bought straight out without renting, and have upgraded along the way. I assumed we would do the same with the cello…just don’t know!