Klarinet Archive - Posting 000152.txt from 2003/01

From: vic wyman <wymanvic@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Chinese Clarinets
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:34:20 -0500

The bigotry expressed on this thread over the past few days is apalling and
painful. Importers, wholesalers and dealers are under constant pressure to
shave prices. Parents and schools look for low prices and are unable to
relate price to quality. It is no surprise that the US market is crammed
with poor quality Chinese horns. If you look in an open market place like
Hong Kong, in music stores and a few of the larger 'mainland' department
stores, you can find a range of middle to high quality clarinets from China.
Chinese consumer products are on the 'up' escalator with ever increasing
quality. After five years living in Hong Kong, I can confirm that China
made toilet paper never once scratched!
Victor
At 10:10 PM 1/7/03 -0500, you wrote:
>At 03:21 PM 1/7/2003 -0800, Avi Rostov wrote:
>>Worse than having the parents feel foolish is having the parents not realize
>>how foolish they are and sending their child off to school with a horn that
>>doesn't work. Those kids think they can't do what all the other children
>>sitting around them in beginning band can do. So, they quit and spend the
>>rest of their lives with the gift of music replaced by the feeling that they
>>are inadequate.
>
>I think the vast majority of the kids who quit band do so for just that
>reason. They really do not know enough (and unfortunately, often the band
>director does not, either) to realize that there is something wrong with
>their instrument, which can be the case even in good quality instruments,
>especially used ones.. The deficiencies are often glaring enough on the
>Chinese horns that they DO get brought in for repair, and that's when we
>have to give them the bad news.
>
>
>Bill Hausmann
>
>If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
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