Useful post for students planning their applications. For anyone considering it, contacting the studio teacher early and taking a trial lesson is the step that matters most, because it shows how the teaching works and puts a name to the application before auditions. Starting the prescreening ...

gocsick's point explains the pricing: industrial catalogs charge for speed and certainty, because their typical customer has a machine down and will pay almost anything to get a part tomorrow. For shop consumables like peel rivets, the cheaper approach is to buy a year's supply from a wholesale ...

Good warning to post. This pattern is common on gear forums: scammers scrape usernames and items from public sale threads, then email potential buyers from a new address pretending to be the seller. The simple rule for buyers is to start every deal through a private message to the member on the ...

Reverb's current fee page is the place to check before listing, since the selling and payment processing fees are deducted from the sale price and have changed over the years. On shipping, the seller sets the price in the listing, either a flat rate or a calculated rate, and can buy a label through ...

On fit, the usual check is to measure the inside diameter of the bell and compare it with the range the mute maker lists, then buy from a shop that accepts returns, since F tuba bells vary a lot. Practice mutes cut volume but add resistance and pull some notes out of tune, so they suit short ...