<p>I’ll be even more candid. I would NOT spend $30,000 on an instrument for a student who didn’t intend to pursue playing it as a career. Sorry…that’s just too much money. I would not have purchased my daughter’s instruments for the full retail price…we just happened to hit it lucky with our purchases for her. BUT if they had cost the retail cost…NOPE. She does this for fun…not as a profession. At full cost, her two instruments would have cost double what we spent on them.</p>
<p>Agreed with the above poster, however. No student should be “fighting” with their instrument to produce a sound. DD was using borrowed (and BAD) English horns that simply didn’t play when she blew into them. Thus…the need for us to purchase one for her. She was using it very frequently. BUT for full retail price…well…it would NOT have happened.</p>