Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: horn for college?


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Posted by tuba dad on February 19, 2002 at 18:08:26:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: horn for college? posted by Doug on February 19, 2002 at 17:53:12:

These tuba profs definitely have their personal biases for and against different tubas. I think that their bias has to be part of a student's consideration of where he wants to attend college.

I traveled around with my son, meeting these guys, at the front end of the college search. If you are in the market for a horn and ask them their opinion, they will give it to you - there are a couple of them who will try to sell you a horn (seemed a little unscrupulous to me). But we never encountered someone telling us that the horn my son already owned was inadequate or "wrong" in any way.

The bottom line: When you pick a prof, you are "buying into" the whole program, and horn bias may come into play.


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