Re: Balancing practice between two instruments...
When i was a kid i played 3 instruments, but only because my parents would never let me quit band and piano lessons, it was "good for me". I think most fretted string instruments you can drop them for a week or a little longer and just pick it up again, whereas you lose the embouchure for double reeds or high brass fast. Lap and pedal steel, there's a lot of skills involved, those seem to evaporate pretty quickly too. Mandolin you have to work at the left hand strength/accuracy to maintain that.
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Yamaha piano, clarinet, violin; generic cello;
a pedal steel (highly recommended); banjo, dobro don't get played much cause i'm considerate ;}
Shopping/monitoring prices: vibraphone/marimbas, rhodes, synths, Yamaha brass and double reeds
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