Reply #30: Potentially total ripoff - if the horn is good, but if teacher declares it unworthy, they're an ass

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and you will know for sure if it's a scam.

Could very well be that the teacher actually is concerned and determined to make sure that no student is playing a shitty instrument that will make them not to want play any more or otherwise frustrate them.

Nothing can kill an interest in playing an instrument like finding one that's a piece of shit but because you are just learning you don't know it's a piece of shit and so assume that the reason you can't make it sound good is because YOU suck. The teacher might be genuinely attempting to keep that from happening.