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Cost Analysis of playing the bassoon: playing the bassoon on a…
Cost Analysis of playing the bassoon: playing the bassoon on a professional level comes with many expenses due to the high cost of the instruments as well as the costs associated with reed making. At what point is it worth it to invest in expensive reed-making equipment- how many reeds does one have to make? Are some instruments a better investment than others?
Reed Making: How many reeds does one have to make before the cost of equipment is worth it - strictly from a financial perspective
Equipment Cost: Comapring the cost of the major pieces of reed making equipment from the major reed equipment brands. Rieger, Pfiefer, Reeds n’ Stuff
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Cane: price of tube cane, gouged, grouped and profiled, and gouged, shaped and profiled per kilo from midwest, miller marketing,
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Time Cost
Average number hours it takes to make blanks/finish reeds - minimum wage cost.
How long does it take to gouge? Profile? Shape? Form? (Per 10 pieces of cane, research analysis of CCM students.
Resource Consumption
How many finished reeds do you make per month? How many total pieces of cane were consumed? (Pieces that did not make it to the final finishing process. SURVEY
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Value of Instruments: Purchasing a bassoon can be viewed as acquiring an asset, rather than an expense, as the instrument can be expected to appreciate in value (similarly to a house) but do all brands appreciate equally? Are there brands that are a better investment from a financial perspective?
Student horns: fox, mooseman, schrieber
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Professional horns: the list price of the horns in available from the manufactures, the resale value of used instruments I am finding though Paul Norby and Bocal Majority, as well as through the for sale history on the IDRS forum.
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Income: what income can a professional bassoonist expect to make, how many bassoonists have to earn non-bassoon income to make ends meet
Average salary of principal and 2nd bassoonists in full-time orchestras in the USA. Information available through Guidestar
Teaching: Hour rates pulled from websites: playwithapro, take lessons, SURVEY
Non-music income: Do you have to earn non-bassoon related income to afford baseline expenses? SURVEY