The ONLY thing wrong is "plastic" but it doesn't make YOU wrong, if it is what you want. The only wrong thing to do is to alienate someone because they can't read music.

Could you try reviewing those really cheap trumpet mouthpieces online? Some people don’t realize how much a difference a mouthpiece makes.

I used to be a trumpet player a couple months ago in 4th grade it's summer rn so I'm a 5th grader now but I wasn't doing good in trumpet so a couple days before my concert my band teacher switched me to baritone,good switch

I wish my daughter's flute had come with a screwdriver! It got loose at her end of the year concert and no sound was coming out and she might not have been able to play if it wasn't that an oboist in her band had a screwdriver in HIS case and was able to tighten it down.

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This seems to be the same as cheap guitars. The super cheap ones are usable, but around $200-300 is the sweet spot for a beginner, going off other comments. My first (and currently only) guitar was $240. It’s a real workhorse, probably has around 200-300 hours and a couple upgrades on it after 9 months or so and plays 10x better than it did when I got it. Have no idea about horns though because the only wind instrument experience I have was 3rd-5th grade mandatory recorder lol.

Great format for this type of video!

What is the best clarinet? That is not to over budget for beginner? Thanks

If the PRC factories just raised their QC by a third, the world could enjoy an abundance of good introductory musical instruments.

14:50 that's an F, not a G

What trumpet do you recommend to those of us that aren't in a band, but want a good trumpet ? I've seen them from several hundred up to several thousands of dollars. What's the best trumpet you recommend ? I used to play the trumpet. Got my Grandpa's. He got it second hand from someone else. Even the case locks (But no keys) I got kicked out of band when they figured out I couldn't read music. Teach me to read music or let me play by ear, like I was. And I could read EGBDFAC but the notes confused me. No stem, stem up, stem down, hollow notes, solid notes, flagged notes 2 flags... Then notes that weren't even on the staff. Anyway just curious. My trumpet also did not have neither place on the slides to adjust. The adjustments were there but the rings and hardware were missing, and likely why I got singled out to play solo. Because I was slightly off pitch and when I didn't hear what to play, I couldn't play it. So that's how he caught me. And instead of being a teacher, he was just a jerk and threw me out of band. He could have at very least stay in class to learn, or teach me when other students weren't around. It still bothers me after all these years.

I have a cecillo violin

Interesting but I hope the person who broke the clarinet paid for it

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My prediction is saxophone next

The mouthpiece is terrible, but your reed was too hard for the facing. More open facings require a softer reed. I have a clarineo (pretty cool little instrument for kids), and it comes with a size 1 read. I have to play on a size 2, but on my clarinet I play on a 3.5. Also, for best results, never use an old reed with a different mouthpiece. The mouthpiece changes it's shape

I’ve played this exact flute for over a year now and it’s a good flute, however if you are sensitive to metals/allergic to nickle (like me) it could a problem. Also not too long after playing it (like a couple of months) the nickle plating starts coming off and the flute doesn’t look as good, but it’s still functional. Overall it’s a very good beginners flute in my opinion.

These things are junk but to be fair, you're both playing *all* the clarinets really, really badly.

try to find cheapest saxophones

How did a student break the clarinet like that??

Keep up the good work Mr.JJ

Okay, but I am not seeing a lot of $20 mouthpieces. Most are FAR higher.

Brass is such a soft metal, its easy to bend or crush.

I play bari sax and this flute is the price of a 5 count box of reeds for me 😢

Would this be fine just to use during marching season ?

It's so annoying how method books teach one fingering like its gospel truth when they are others. On clarinet, they teach middle E flat as 1 and 1, but 1,2, and side key is easier. Same with oboe. They teach forked F, but right 1 and 2 plus either left F or the F key between 2 and 3 is so much easier.

You should collab with other youtubers in band

Good job on the video Mr.jamison

That’s valve lapping compound in the valves. It has an abrasive in it. You need to wash it out very well (including the connecting tubes between the valves) or it will slowly ruin the valve tolerances…

I actually bougt a flute and a clarinet on temu for 34$ and they actually work well and that scares me

Largest issue I've seen and wondering on this one is not as much the low, but really higher end on the flute. On the cheap flute I could hear the pitch coming more shrill vs your old flute had fuller tone. My wife sadly lost her nice professional Germeinhardt, but then picked up a cheap Chinese made one that was like 300-400. No biggie at that time since just more on own for fun. But since I've rejoined a community group, she has also, and was also running into the higher notes becoming shrill. Of course the music we were playing almost all her notes where high, and made our dogs howl. We ended up taking the plunge and getting a new nice Yamaha for her (and dogs are happier), and that issue is gone. Now with that said, I swear, cheap flutes come with a nice cleaning rod! I swear, the higher end ones, they make it "fancier" by being metal, which shoving a metal rod down your flute where you can't see it vs plastic, at least the plastic will break before you mess something up lol. But of course band vs performer the sound quality matters differently. With the dwindling music stores makes it harder for kids to get used good instruments or affordable rentals. So it's become a two sided sword. But same hand, we just got a new trumpet player join, which he is going to college for jazz. I noticed he was playing on cheaper Chinese made trumpet, so I had him try my professional trumpet. He really wants one now, but did not have the heart to tell him how much that one costs. But seeing students getting to college level and being stuck in the instruments that can't perform at that level, made me look even more differently at these "cheap" instruments.

I ordered this same flute and it arrives tomorrow thanks to this video i can feel a little better about how i just spent my money

Stop gripping the keys!! They bend super easy!!

DON'T PUT CORK GREASE ON ANY METAL FLUTE!!!!

From my experience with cheaper clarinets are harder to blow into because they are narrower than a regular standard clarinet.

Your vids are so entertaining 😊

To this day, I am still searching for a single band director that was a flute main in grade school 😂 (My elementary and middle school directors both played clarinet. Idk what my HS director played but it definitely wasn’t the flute)

Enjoying the video. It is crazy the price somebody can make a musical instrument that actually works (when it’s manufactured in China).

Try the cheapest oboe 😂

Btw ive heard the gloves are for cleaning without getting fingerprints on it again but they get put photos of playing cause of dumb marketing ig idk if you know this i just wanted to say if you didnt

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Yes there are flute head joint caps

hi mad music! i’ve been a fan since the trumpet video and wondered if you could do french horn soon. as a horn player, we gotta have more because no one bothers learning it. ALL YOUR VIDS ARE BABGERS❤

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Thanks guys, this was great. There are tons of instruments I’d like try and maybe even own, and finding out a USD50 flute can actually be decent is incredibly valuable to me! Keep up the good work! ❤

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It's a pity cheap bassoons don't seem to exist. After all if it's possible to make a usable clarinet for 100 it should be possible to make a usable bassoon for 300 or 400 but the cheapest Chinese ones are like 1000.

bro last i checked you had under 1k

I have this flute and I think that for 50 dollars is good. The only thing is that you need to be able to do small repairs which is not a problem for me because I've learned and because I like to fix things on my own. Just be careful because at first I didn't know exactly what I was doing and I ended up making my flute leaks worse. But know it plays good and I can learn how to play

The pictures you took while your wife was blindly playing were gold. 😂