Gun Counter ignorance is not just in the gun store. Name some other examples.

[BigBear]

Arg... instrument sales and people put in charge of purchasing that know NOTHING about them!!!

There is a REASON (manufacturing quality, testing, metal lurgy, resonance nodes, etc) trumpet A is only $300 and trumpet B is $3K. Please, do yourself a favor and get B... Or just give me the money and I'll take care of it.

Then you hear the "Well, player X would sound the same on horn A vs B"....

Well, duh you friggin' moron, player X has X number of years of performing and is competent to produce. However, I can guarantee you that player X is working his behind off trying to get a decent sound out of horn A, while when he uses horn B, it's a friggin Maybach in comparison!

HA

[TheBelly]

Arg... instrument sales and people put in charge of purchasing that know NOTHING about them!!!

There is a REASON (manufacturing quality, testing, metal lurgy, resonance nodes, etc) trumpet A is only $300 and trumpet B is $3K. Please, do yourself a favor and get B... Or just give me the money and I'll take care of it.

Then you hear the "Well, player X would sound the same on horn A vs B"....

Well, duh you friggin' moron, player X has X number of years of performing and is competent to produce. However, I can guarantee you that player X is working his behind off trying to get a decent sound out of horn A, while when he uses horn B, it's a friggin Maybach in comparison!

HA

THIS... String instruments are even harder because as they get up there in price, the qualities that separate a $45k from a $50k instrument may be so small that the average person doesn't even notice.

It takes a pretty experienced player to appreciate the difference in the distance between the strings, the slope of the fingerboard, the strings action height, and then how each of those work for/against each other. Most times, you can change some of them by chainging a little part here or there, but then the instrument might sound different, and thusly, the value drops. Your $40k instrument might now be only worth $25k because you made a change 5 years ago.

Good luck!