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It's fine if you don't want to use strings, but your reasons are really quite sad.
No musician enjoys playing in a cold climate, regardless of what instrument they play. Woodwinds are prone to cracking, and brass instruments get cold. Not to mention it ruins intonation (which was clearly an issue in the performance). (I'm assuming you call for cold temperatures in this piece by the comment, "they need a place around 20 degrees, they would never play in the environment called for them in this piece").
"Unless they were gypsies"
What do you mean by this? Is this just a joke, or some sort of racial slur?
"Plus, to represent the north, I don't think that lush strings would really work. The north is not pretty like that. It's pretty in its solidarity, its sparceness, and purity."
I think that any string instrument could accomplish that easily, though I'm not saying that you have to use a string instrument.
Welcome back.
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