(October 17, 2016 at 11:13 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: What do you think of a baritone? My kid is entering her fourth year playing. Before that, she took violin for three years.
I have very limited experience with brass (rented a trumpet once and a French horn on another occasion, but never took lessons for either one). I do like the sound of the middle-range brass instruments, though (French horn, baritone and euphonium).
Interestingly, I also took violin for 3 years, starting as an adult beginner and getting as far as Grade 3 Royal Conservatory of Music -- and that's how I ended up playing clarinet instead:
Back around February 2004, I stopped by a music store on the way home from a violin lesson. There was an instrument clearance table, and a clarinet for $79.95. After trying to figure it out on My own for a while I found a teacher that summer and have been studying with him ever since (and have Grade 6 RCM, with plans to eventually take the Grade 8 exam).
I no longer have the bargain-table clarinet; I upgraded first to a Yamaha YCL-250 student model and then added a Yamaha CSV, keeping the 250 for outdoor gigs, and gave the original to a thrift store.
