In recent years the flurry of reasonably priced professional-looking instruments arriving on our shores means that we are no longer exclusively buying and renting the student lines from established manufacturers like Bach, Yamaha and Besson. The marketplace is now full of instruments with shop and designer names of which Odyssey, the brand name of designer Peter Pollard, is one. My first instrument, a Bach ‘Bundy’ that my parents rented from Gwent Music in Newport, cost £350 in 1986. That’s £900 today. Incredible, then, that I’m about to tell you all about a tenor horn from Peter Pollard’s Odyssey brand that costs just £500 in 2024!
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