[real saxophonist]

I've been following this story since you first posted a couple days ago. The most expensive instrument I owned was a tie between my Selmer baritone saxophone, or my Mark VI tenor, but we're talking 6 to 8 thousand. Retail about 13k for the bari now.

Bassoons are 13-20k. I don't, never have, and probably never will, understand string people.

I attended a clinic with Buster Williams, and he was playing a 400 year old German bass that had the most sustain I've ever heard.

[afraidfortherepublic]

This story makes me really sad. Go back to the first story posted (yesterday) and scroll down. Somebody posted a clip of Almond playing the Lipinski near the bottom of the first page. It’s just beautiful . Perhaps you’ll begin to understand “string people” then.