"Take It Away"

[dangerstat]

Yeah I agree with that. I think it would have been great to have something like this when I was at school and very involved in music as there were often kids from poorer families who were stupidly talented. I played the violin and by grade 8 you needed a decent instrument, I don't think anyone I knew at my standard carried less than £800 worth of equipment and that's just for high school orchestras!

Wow different worlds, at my school you where lucky if you had any instrument at all. I had a pathetic £10 car boot sale guitar that I learnt on when I was a kid. And I don't think anyone had anything costing over a couple of hundred!

 

[Vixen]

Wow different worlds, at my school you where lucky if you had any instrument at all. I had a pathetic £10 car boot sale guitar that I learnt on when I was a kid. And I don't think anyone had anything costing over a couple of hundred!

Well, that mostly wasn't my school. I was in the local youth orchestra and national youth string orchesta of Scotland so it's a totally different sample group. Generally, the top players were from families who could afford to pay for good instruments and private lessons. They were encouraged and had the opportunities to be great.

I can only think of two others from my school of around 800 pupils, over 4 years at youth orchestra, who were grade 8+ and had expensive instruments.

 

[memyselfandi]

I don't know, I played in various music groups growing up and I know a lot of people who had decent instruments who's parents would have welcomed this scheme. A lot of them had good instruments but in some cases I'm not sure what the parents may have to go through to get them. My parents had to deal with me playign the French Horn and my sister playing Oboe and Cor Anglais.

Unfortunately the company I'm looking at selling my old French Horn through are not listed though as that might have made it a bit easier to sell ...