It is designed to be more durable and handle more abuse. Honestly in my opinion for the first few years I wouldn't spend more than 500 on a beginner flute. Is this reasonable? Am I crazy thinking that amount is really high? If that is normal and reasonable, I'd seriously consider just purchasing a brand new one outright. It seems, from what I saw while doing a bit of research, that a used one would be 1/2 to 2/3 the price of a brand new one which would mean that we would, in the end, be paying ~$450 to $550 for the convenience of payments. I understand and respect that it is a rental with a payment plan, thus it would be more than outright purchasing it but it looks like a person could purchase one new for ~$725. Secondly, which is the 'better' flute? Are these two flutes equivalent in how they play? Again, I know nothing about flutes so I wouldn't even know what is important when researching this stuff online.įinally, the rental, a used flute, would end up costing ~$925 in the end. Now my main question would be, providing that the Gemeinhardt is is good condition and needs only the regular maintenance stuff done, is it better to buy that or stay with the rental? It seems that the general consensus is that it would run in the neighborhood of $150-$200 to have that stuff done. I've been going through the posts here in this sub and it seems that, provided that the flute isn't dinged up, dented, bent, etc., the worst we would be looking at is replacing the pads and possibly adjusting whatever might need adjusting. They claim that the Gemeinhardt is, in their words, 'in very good condition and hard case is in excellent condition'. Recently, we found a flute that we might be interested in, a Gemeinhardt 50 series 52sp (this is how it was listed so if anything is incorrect, blame my ignorance and feel free to correct me). We went with the rental thing and she received a used Emerson EF1 that she uses currently. My daughter (5th grade) started playing flute this year.

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