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Care and maintenance demonstrations help give young students confidence in the responsibilities of owning a new band instrument... or taking care of a school-loaned one. |
The continuum of a band instrument
by David Browne
Buying your first band instrument:
"A good quality wind instrument, properly maintained, should last a good 50 years with virtually no decrease in playability."
The need to step-up to an intermediate instrument:
"After some years, an extremely motivated musician might begin to demand more nuance of tone and response. It's not because the entry level instrument is worn out. That's a false notion."
Buying a pro horn:
"Occasionally, the musician who possesses the talent and discipline, plus the benefits of good teaching, may be able to realize the benefits of a true professional instrument."
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Why does ABI inspect and service every instrument we sell?
by David Browne
There is a twofold purpose.
First of all, our routine inspection and shop-adjustment protects our customers from receiving a defective instrument. Customers are assured of having an instrument that plays the way the factory designed it to play
Secondly, it protects us from selling inferior products because frankly, if we find we have to spend major time adjusting a particular brand of instrument, we will choose not to sell them.
"This may sound downright 'un-American', but over here at ABI every instrument is presumed to be guilty until proven innocent." David Browne
- Not all instruments are adjusted the same when re receive them from the factory. It is RARE that we find nothing that needs to be improved before transferring ownership to the customer.
- That's true with ALL the consistently good brands of instruments. Even the best built brands occasionally need t.l.c. to play the way they were intended.
- Our 'claim to fame' is that we almost always catch those problems, and we service the instruments so that it doesn't become the customer's problem after the fact.
- As a rule of thumb, our repair shop minimum charge is $20. Depending upon the make and instrument type, we might spend $20 up to $40-50 of time, at our own expense, to ensure an instrument will play up to its potential.
- When you buy an instrument from us, that repair cost is not passed along to you in the selling prices of our instruments."
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