Klarinet Archive - Posting 000344.txt from 2006/10

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: [kl] Commercial announcement
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:04:14 -0500

This is NOT about clarinets ---YET!

We have discussed cheap Chinese Clarinets.......

As of LAST FRIDAY the HEISIG Trombones are available! - A very fine horn! Inexpensive, yet a viable horn for lifelong use.

Trumpets - two models, inexpensive and good for students. Much better than most that have been on the market for kids the last 50 years.

A very responsive pocket trumpet.

A very inexpensive and fine straight flute.

Our flute with curved and straight heads have been out for awhile, but we are now receiving regular deliveries, which I then finish here.

We also have been making a fine standard ($1,200) and a pro alto sax for almost 2 years.

We make 2 models of pro tenor saxes and the FINEST SOPRANO sax I have ever played---a full 3 1/2 octaves, and the sound is fat all the way up! It is curved and in silver.

We have the instruments made on a LONG assembly line. It starts in different places in China and ends at 2 locations in the Monterey Bay Area.

The above instruments are very reasonably priced, some even ridiculously low in price.

I opened my store in 1968 and carried great brands like Benge, Schilke, Terry Custom Trombones, Buffet, Powell, Brannen, Claude Gordon, Morgan etc. Over the years, probably largely because of deaths and retirements, our industry has become less and less responsive to the public. That is you and me.

Price has been the sole object of many, meaning no profit to pay for really fine shop set-up, like lining up trumpet valves to much higher standards than the factories.

I can go on, but mercifully won't. The long and short is that many of the old-timers moaned (I think appropriately) about a dying industry. For awhile the custom flute world kept creativity alive, and I think some of that is happening in the clarinet world today--Rossi ---Fox...etc.

I have wanted for years to bring out custom saxes, trombones, and other instruments. A couple of years ago I was approached to design a full line of band instruments, student and pro, that were made WELL again. At 56, I was looking at the calendar and wondering if I could complete all I was asked to do in the next 30 years! With enthusiasm I took the project on. We decided to look at the Chinese to see if they had the capability to make many or most of the instruments in the line.

That introduction is to finish some of what we were saying about Chinese clarinets!

The story at this point is that the above instruments are very acceptable and often much more than that. I am sorry to report that I won't let the clarinets on the market yet. They are not up to my standards, though a reasonable student level clarinet at this point. That is it, they are REASONABLE and that isn't good enough -- YET!

Kurt

Kurt Heisig Musical Instrument Manufacturing
(831) 425-5658

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