Originally Posted by master of none
She's thinking about the upright bass so she could stay in orchestra (but orchestra teacher says 6th grade is too late to change).


I don't know about the rest of your post, but I had to weigh in to say that this is totally not true. I switched from saxophone to bassoon in the 9th grade, at the band teacher's request, and it took all of two weeks for me to be better at the new instrument than I'd been at the one I'd been playing for five years.