What to consider when buying instruments this festive season.
There are various aspects that are important to consider when you’re buying a musical instrument. If it’s a gift to someone else or for yourself, here is some guidance on what to keep in mind when you’re buying an instrument – so that music can become a gift for life.
How easy is the instrument to repair?
Good quality instruments still need regular service checks and occasional repairs. Many companies don’t offer original spare parts for their instruments and technicians have to make spare parts from scratch or adapt other spare parts. This can have massive impacts on the playability and sound quality.
Yamaha has a global network with a wide availability of original spare parts that are accessible at The Wind Section. Yamaha’s quality, consistency and spares catalogue means that their instruments are considered the most maintainable on the market. This will often make repairs quicker and can cut down on labour time reducing repair costs. This also helps Yamaha instruments to retain their second-hand value which can help when upgrading.
Yamaha believe in the quality and construction of their instruments and offer a 5-year extended warranty on their woodwind and brass ranges that you can register for within 6 months of purchase.
Is this instrument recommended by professionals and teachers?
Did you know that Yamaha is the largest independent music education provider globally? Yamaha Music School has been creating musicians for decades using Yamaha’s instruments and teaching courses. It is one of Yamaha’s proudest achievements. If you’re looking for a beginner instruments or higher up the range you will find artists and educators all over the globe who will attest to Yamaha being the best start you can get.
The research and development done with Yamaha’s artists not only means that their professional instruments are world class, but also that their student ranges are the best one you can get. Features developed on Yamaha’s top ranges are often trickled down meaning that their intermediate and beginner lines give you the ability to express your true self as a musician.
Handmade vs mass-manufactured instruments
Yamaha combines both!
Beginner and professional instrument both benefit from years of research and development. Yamaha’s technologies allow a consistency of manufacture and quality that’s impossible to maintain if everything is handmade. For example, this means that one Yamaha YFL-212 Flute is going to play to the same exceptional standard as another Yamaha YFL-212 Flute. Yamaha’s hand-made and machined processes are overseen by highly trained and experienced technicians. Top of the line instruments are made by crafts people who have decades of experience and world class knowledge. Yamaha’s professional instruments benefit from this forward thinking approach and handmade culture equalling those of any boutique manufacturer.
Check out our full range of Yamaha Brass Instruments and Yamaha Woodwind Instruments.
Technical solutions for (almost) every problem
Do you live in an flat, have young children or siblings, parents or partners that are working from home or you just want to get that part of the new music piece you’re playing right without anyone hearing you practice? Yamaha’s SILENT Brass™ is more than a practice mute – no one else can hear what you’re playing, but you can! Through headphones you can hear everything you’re playing. With option to perceive your sound as yourself or the listener, with different reverbs or in a different sized rooms.
You might also want to consider one of the Yamaha Digital Saxophones.
Make saxophone playing even more accessible with the Yamaha YDS-120 Digital Saxophone. This digital saxophone eliminates restrictions on where and when you can play, while offering the same tonal diversity, deep low notes, and delicate highs of an acoustic instrument.
Play the saxophone anytime, anywhere with the Yamaha YDS-150 Digital Saxophone. Featuring the Integrated Bell Acoustic System, this is a unique digital saxophone that lets you control the volume and still maintain a seamless sense of expressive unity with the instrument.
How to keep the motivation to practice up during the holidays?
You want to keep the motivation to practice up during the holidays? Use the 3 months free Tomplay access you get when you buy a new Yamaha brass or woodwind instrument.
Tomplay offers interactive sheet music for all levels with great features such as backing tracks, visual guides, recording options and tempo adjustments.
The Wind Section - Your Official Yamaha Shokunin Select Dealer
The Wind Section is an official Yamaha Shokunin Select Dealer, one of only six in the UK and the only one in Scotland.
Sharing Yamaha’s commitment to craft and service, we’ve been carefully chosen as a Shokunin Select Dealer for our ability to help you find the instrument that’s right for you, and ensure it remains in perfect playing condition.
With Yamaha-trained staff, a comprehensive range of Yamaha instruments in stock and in-house repair facilities, The Wind Section is the perfect partner for your journey in music.
If you're looking to purchase a brass or woodwind instrument for a Christmas gift or just for yourself, please get in touch. We look forward to welcoming you to The Wind Section to experience Yamaha instruments for yourself.
And remember . . . a Yamaha's for life, not just for Christmas!
