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8 Steps to Choosing your Instrument
Having done your research, gathered your allies and located the options [see 4 Questions When Choosing an Instrument] it’s time to kick into the selection procedures.
And you can have a little system to ease you out of impulse buying. Try these 8 steps.
1. Eliminate what doesn’t please you or fit your Shopping Brief. There will always be an amazing instrument that costs your annual income. Close behind it will be a (usually) hyper person who’ll want to get you to buy it.
2. Get your selection down to a maximum of three instruments.
3. Pull out your Shopping Brief to check if you’re in the area. Be strict here! You don’t want to break the bank and not be able to use some cash for integrating the new instrument into your life.
4. Try them one after another in close succession. If the shops or houses are close scoot between the two in time for the physical sensation of playing them to be still fresh. Better still if you can get them in the same place.
5. Eliminate one more that feels YUK or is just too much mula. Have it removed from your field of vision.
6. Try closing your eyes and playing. Try walking around with it. Check in the mirror to see if you make a good match.
7. Walk away and have a talk, coffee. Give yourself a good twenty minutes. Talk to a friend about it on the phone if you have to. What you’re really doing is listening to yourself speak your preferences out loud.
8. Walk into the shop/house and buy one out of the two that you love.
Buying an instrument is a medium to short-term relationship. You CAN sell it after a while. You won’t die from the wrong choice. And you’ll probably make a lot of beautiful music, the two of you, in the meantime!