Klarinet Archive - Posting 000121.txt from 2003/01

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Kegelstadt (Was Clarinet in Movies)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:57:37 -0500

According to my daughter and son inlaw, who are spending this year in
Baijing, the Chinese don't even make good toilet paper.

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 08:46 AM, Forest E. Aten Jr. wrote:

> A few "western" consultants are buying clarinets from China and
> selling them
> in the U.S. market....they are junk.
>
> Forest Aten
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Gresham" <mgresham@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Kegelstadt (Was Clarinet in Movies)
>
>
>>
>> LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:
>>> Bill Hausmann wrote,
>>>
>>>> I could go for a game with 10 Chinese-made garbage
>>>> clarinets used as pins...
>>>
>>> ...and live hand grenades for bowling balls?
>>
>> Just curious,
>> Are there any inklings of improvements in Chinese made clarinets?
>> I ask because in pianos, everything used to be garbage, but things
>> are changing. My understabnding is there are 4 piano manufacturing
>> facilities in mainland China, 2 produce junk, and 2 produce adequate
>> pianos due to investments, materials and production standards brought
>> in
>> by experienced European and North American firms. None of these are
>> either "middle" or "upper tier" products, but are beating out (in
>> quality) some well-known brands from elsewhere in east Asia.
>> Are any "western" clarinet manufacturers (the word used to
>> distinguish assembly line products from the best instruments)
>> investing
>> to produce any better "beginner" instruments in China than at the
>> "garbage" level?
>>
>> --
>> Mark Gresham, composer
>> mgresham@-----.com/
>> Lux Nova Press http://www.luxnova.com/
>> LNP Retail Webstore http://www.luxnova.com/lnpwebstore/
>>
>>
>>
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Richard Bush
rbushidioglot@-----.com

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