选择你的第一把高级琴(3)
Even putting aside the question of teacher commissions, Mark Bjork, a professor of violin and pedagogy in the University of Minnesota’s music department, advices buyers to take their teacher’s opinion into account, but never to neglect their own feelings about it. He recalls his own experience with a student who was trying to decide between two violins. “I had had a chance to try them before she did, and they were both very nice examples, but one of them, I felt, was much better sounding than the other one. She came in after a week or so of trying them and said she had made her decision, and it was not the instrument I would have chosen. And I was a little bit surprised until heard her play them. She sounded much better on the one she had chosen. I didn’t, but she did,” Bjork says. Bjork adds that students should consider instruments being made by contemporary makers because of their high quality as well as the fact that old instruments frequently are out of shopper’s price range. In fact, he adds, sometimes a top-of-the-line mass-produce instrument will be better than a bad handmade one. But if he believes the student will run up against certain limitation with a particular instrument, Bjork doesn’t hesitate to point that out. And if he sees a student leaning toward something that he thinks is going to be a bad investment, he says so. Bjork believes it’s important to think of that first good instrument as an investment. He advices students to buy from a reputable dealer who will give them a good trade-in policy on the one that they’re purchasing. Buy from someone who is apt to have a selection of things for you to view if and when you do decide to trade up, he says. But according to Waddle, some shoppers seem excessively worried about investment value. “Many people understand investment value more than they understand sound,” he says. His view is that in the lower price ranges, say $2,000 and under for a violin, you’re not going to get an investment instrument. So you need to decide how important that is to you. Waddle always tells people to sit down and figure out a comfortable price range, then look at instruments within that range and call and make an appointment with the instrument maker or sealer. Tell him or her price range. That way, the maker or dealer can have several appropriate choices ready for you to try. (Givens adds that it is helpful to bring in your sent instrument and bow to give the shop owner an idea of what you are accustomed to hearing.) Then begins the process of testing and narrowing down the choices. HOW BEST TO SHOP FOR YOUR NEXT VIOLIN Leek-Dedon has three criteria she asks prospective buyers to think about when they come into the shop: How clear and responsive is the instrument? How do you like the sound? Is it comfortable to play or does your hand become fatigued? |
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