| Wise words from the wise one. FWIW I agree with what Wilmer has been saying - also some interesting and valid points raised by many other posters.
I often use this analogy when starting to teach a new student. Imagine I was a piano teacher with a really promising and talented student. If you can now take a further leap of imagination and suppose that I happened to be very rich and generous. The time would come when I would say to the student, "You have worked really hard and you show great potential. What you really need and deserve now is the best piano that money can buy to practice on every day. Here is a check for $100,000. Go and buy yourself a Steinway Concert Grand and carry on with your studies - have a ball, it's on me"
Faced with a similarly promising trumpet student - I can't help him in the same way at all. The trumpet is just an amplifier for the player - the player produces the sound, not the instrument.
All the best. Noel.
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