DS2 will get the opportunity to choose one or the other. Oh, and keyboard, as in ONE of the above. DS1 does keyboard (I'd've liked him to do brass as we do have a tradition in the family) SO, which would you choose? It struck me at the school carol service (this is a state juniors so no little hot-housed Mozarts 'bringing the house down', just a bunch of group trained DCs doing in-school lessons)- but it struck me that the flautists were making the best sound! The brass was predictably parpy and the clarinets rather wheezy. IS the flute one of those instruments where if you can make the sound at all, you can make it reasonably well? And the clarinet, is it like the violin where it sounds dreadful for far longer?
What do you think?