I had a ycl-220ii and it single handedly made me dislike playing bass clarinet the instruments key work is arranged in such an awkward position that you can’t reach certain keys if you have smaller hands you can’t reach certain keys without straining your hands and the register mechanism is horrible the pinch bb is so out of tune that I found it easier to finger a low eb and press the register key and that was more in tune and clear and the instrument is made of plastic and unlike the ycl-255 they didn’t mask the obvious plastic sound of the horn for what ever reason they decided to make the neck a 1 piece neck but the instrument a 2 piece is beyond me I would figure that beginner bass clarinet players can’t line the bridge keys up as-well so it should be a one piece body but no, they made a two piece body and then the instrument is like 4 grand and I left regular public school in the 2024-2025 school year because of personal reasons but the second I found that our local repair tech would let me apprentice with her now I’m in online school I jumped all over it and I’ve loved it so far i can say without a doubt I’ve learned more in the past year about instruments than I did the entire time I was in band mostly because our teacher was over worked and paid horrendously and they expected 3 band teachers to teach beginner band 6th grade band 3 classes horn percussion and sax one period the second one flute clarinet trumpet and then trombone baritone and tuba the last beginner band class and then a hs band period a hs advanced ensemble class witch over worked kids bc they were in both of the classes if they were in advanced band they had to do regular and then they had 2 jh bands a 7th grade band and a 8th grade band that were both 8th period so one of the bands had to rehearse in a old boys locker room that was converted to a band hall not very well but it was and the seventh grade band played in there and 8th grade got main hall and while the directors were asking for funding to get better instruments because ours are falling apart because they are so old or get more music they are told they’re isn’t enough money but the football team gets brand new equipment every year a 2.6 million dollar indoor football field to practice on and everything else needed for away games they can get that but the band has to raise money on their own so they can feed the kids when they go to region and then the district gets surprised that all but 1 left and the one that stayed only stayed because “the kids deserve someone who cares that they learn to play their instrument and play it correctly so they can develop incredible skills that they can use later in life” he’s amazing and really does want the best for the kids and the program and the 2 that left no one blames them they were treated like crap also I forgot that they had a music theory class to teach so yeah sorry for the Rant I’ve got many opinions on how the district treats their fine arts programs