2 Comments

1. 
   MiriamH

   April 22, 2009 at 6:11 pm

   I knew… I didn’t get my first new car–I got a little horn thing.
2. 
   Tim Dowd

   April 23, 2009 at 6:54 am

   I purchased my first real trumpet (a used Strad) in 1974 for $350; my first horn in 1979 for around $1,000, and my first (new) car in 1989 for just under $13,000. That makes the car almost three times as expensive as my first oboe (also new and purchased in fall of 2008). I feel like I got good value on all of them. Of course, I only had the car for 11 years (needed a four-door after the birth of our second child); no telling how long I’ll have the oboe (still have the horn).