How do you go about buying a not-professional-$25,000-cello-but-not-a-student-plastic-cello cello? Snowflake details inside. My wife and I are both not professional musicians, but we play music. I'm a brass player. I don't know anything about strings other than there are bows more expensive than my entire instrument. I really want to help my wife find a more playable cello, but she feels like this is an impossible task with the time she has available. Her current cello is a family heirloom from the mid 1800's, which is nice but it isn't a great instrument and has some playability issues.
I talked with a luthier that is local and makes instrument, but a handmade cello is $25000, which is a bit much to us. When I talk to music stores, they just have student level instruments which are worse than her current instrument. We have no idea how to go from here.
There has to be a middle ground where an instrument is nice but not too nice. Nicer than the Toyota Camry but not the Bugatti Veyron. How do I find the BMW i5 of Cellos?
I talked with a luthier that is local and makes instrument, but a handmade cello is $25000, which is a bit much to us. When I talk to music stores, they just have student level instruments which are worse than her current instrument. We have no idea how to go from here.
There has to be a middle ground where an instrument is nice but not too nice. Nicer than the Toyota Camry but not the Bugatti Veyron. How do I find the BMW i5 of Cellos?