Posted by js on July 15, 2002 at 16:57:42:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: pricing perspectives posted by Sean Chisham on July 14, 2002 at 23:21:51:
Here's another interesting apples and tennis shoes thing...
A GREAT pro-quality trumpet can be purchased for under $1500 (regular versions) to around $2000 (nicest piccolo trumpets).
For the price of ONE good tuba, a trumpet player (again, trumpet players on average have no more or no less money than tuba players...and trumpet players arguably have MANY MORE GIGS) can own a pro-quality Bb, C, D-Eb, and piccolo trumpet. Yet many "serious" trumpet players claim not to be able to "afford all that right now".
I just get amused at the general perception of "money" as it relates to "stuff"...
...particularly "stuff" which probably will be only bought one time (unlike apples and tennis shoes).