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Author: andy collins
Date: 2009-03-31 19:30
I've acquired a Xinghai clarinet in grenadilla that is 25 inches (63.5cm) in length without the mouthpiece. It is pitched in Bb but has some additional keywork allowing it to reach to a low Eb, as opposed to low E that a standard clarinet reaches. On the top and bottom sections it has LO22. Anyone seen one of these before?
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-03-31 21:24
A Hsinghai full Boehm? I'm shuddering at the mere thought of that!
Their standard ebonite bodied clarinets were bad enough, so I dread to think what a driftwood one is like and with even more bendy keywork to go out of adjustment.
On appearance they look like Selmer CTs, but that's where the similarity ends.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2009-03-31 21:40
Just wait 10 years......they will improve their production standards and make a clarinet that is competitive in quality and a fraction of the price.
Remember when Japanese products were inferior and the label "Made in Japan" was thought of as cheap? Now they have put American car manufacturers out of business.
I am sure that the mainstream execs in Paris HQs are not happy about this and are shaking in their designer boots.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-03-31 21:58
These Hsinghai clarinets are probably from the late '60s to the early '80s - so they're by no means new and definitely not improved, and not a threat to any of the major makers but a curse for their owners and repairers.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2009-03-31 23:13)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-03-31 22:59
Dileep Gangolli wrote:
> now they have put
> American car manufacturers out of business.
Not quite.
Mark C., Ford Motor Company
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2009-04-01 01:13
Mark,
If you guys keep focusing on trucks instead of small electric cars, Ford will soon be a subsidiary of Toyota, Fiat, or a Chinese firm that no one has heard of yet.
I am all for US products, but to be sure, the US automotive industry is dysfunctional. Management had no strategic vision, UAW took too much off the table to make the business viable, a finally consumers voted with their wallets.
Ford may make it, but say bye bye to GM and most likely Chrysler.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-04-01 01:17
Dileep Gangolli wrote:
> Mark,
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> If you guys keep focusing on trucks instead of small electric
> cars, Ford will soon be a subsidiary of Toyota, Fiat, or a
> Chinese firm that no one has heard of yet.
We'll make 'em if you'll buy 'em. Right now - they're not sustainable. It took Toyota 10 years to break even on the Prius hybrid - now they're finally at (maybe) a break-even point.
And, if you should be so kind as to even look at what Ford makes, you just might find out that we make a few cars that are very highly rated. But that would be work for you, right? Just because we make a lot of trucks doesn't mean that's all we make - but it also doesn't mean we're going to make things that people don't want to buy.
But we digress - perhaps we should stick to something we know about. And that means not going down this rathole.
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