Looking for some advice and thoughts on this, so our oldest child DC1 is incredibly gifted musically and is learning two instruments at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 2nd instrument teacher has said that DC1 is progressing so fast that we should get an instrument that is over £10k or they will be limited in how much more they can learn. The alternative is to buy a £4-5k instrument but that will limit progression quite a lot. We could probably afford the alternative but to do as the teacher has suggested would make our lives very difficult financially (although we agree that this would be the best way to get the most from DC1’s talent and feel quite strongly that we should try our best to do this).
One thing that’s making me turn against this is the idea that DC2 will never get the opportunity to get this much spent on them no matter what it is if we spend so much money on DC1, which seems incredibly unfair. I just don’t know what to do as I don’t want to have to explain to either child in the future why we A) didn’t try our best to help develop their talent or B) gave so much to their sibling that we had no money left to spend on them.