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Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-04-03 00:26
I just got a text from a mate saying 'Just been into Netto to get some beer. They are selling cheap clarinets. Shocking.'
So, do you reckon Lidl and Aldi will follow suit?
Soon followed by Poundland!
Just hope none ever darken my door.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2010-04-03 01:17
Must be the equivalent of Walmart and Sam's Club carrying them in the US?
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-04-03 09:38
> So, do you reckon Lidl and Aldi will follow suit?
Aldi did have some Trumpets and Saxophones in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a palletful of clarinets one day.
Friend of mine bought one of their saxes for outdoors. She brought it back after a couple days, "to save the environment". It wasn't really bad but it felt clumsy and she was worried about its ability to stay in alignment, she said.
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Ben
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2010-04-03 09:54
http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/DanGull237/IMG_0015.jpg
Really high quality instruments as you can see. I had a student buy one a few months ago. She took it back and they wouldn't give a refund.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-04-03 10:16
http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/DanGull237/IMG_0015.jpg
And on plastic clarinets that part of the instrument is the most vulnerable due to the close proximity of the toneholes and most significantly the metal thumb bush - add to that low quality (and dimensionally unstable) plastic and it's a recipie for disaster.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2010-04-05 10:12
A member of the concert band I play with bought a clarinet from Aldi. I fixed it for her when she caught the tape from the swab in the keys and bent one. It seems to be Chinese manufacture and is pretty well identical with the early student Yamahas. Keywork is stainless steel and is well made, fit and finish are better than some much more expensive instruments from major makers and it plays in tune with no intonation problems.
She paid $A189.95 for it. I'd say that's hard to beat for value at the price. I'd rate it as being almost as good as the C100 and better than the Artley C17. The only real beef I had with it is that it is not suited well to large hands and fingers. The mouthpiece that came with it seems to be dimensionally identical with the Yamaha C4
Tony F.
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Author: claribex
Date: 2010-04-07 13:14
I had a student turn up last year with a flute purchased by well-meaning mum from Aldi- it cost under £100! It's still going though- although it does play really sharp at the top!
It's definitely a step up (or across!!) from his blue ebay special flute :(
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-04-07 15:12
If it plays sharp up top (like most flutes are), push the headjoint cork away from the embouchure hole by around 1-2mm (or until the 8ves are in tune with each other).
So start with the low register G and get that note in tune, then check the upper and altissimo Gs with a tuner. If they're sharp (and get progressively sharper as you go up), push the headjoint cork out until they're all in tune.
I just wish most flute and especially piccolo players knew how to adjust the intonation on their instruments as it can get painful when they're playing a quarter tone sharp and are completely oblivious to it.
As my clarinet teacher used to quote from one of his teachers - "Flutes are sharp. Flutes are ALWAYS sharp."
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: RoBass
Date: 2010-04-08 19:51
It's a CSO lika many others in the web and cheaper supermarkets (in Germany f.i. Lidl, Netto, Aldi, Plus, Real... :-))
kindly
Roman
PS: But be aware to mix the Lidl-offered CSO or other instrument-like-looking-stuff with J. Lidl ( a well known manufacturer from Kraslice - see Musikhaus Höllwerth for detailed informations about;-)
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-04-08 22:35
Yep, Lidl Brno is quite a different breed.
Those supermarket chains save even on having their own name stamped on these instruments.
(I wouldn't be surprised if one day they came up with a "GIG" house brand - aka "Geiz ist Geil". )
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Ben
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Author: RoBass
Date: 2010-04-09 14:36
Hi Ben,
has this slogan already entered Svitzerland too? What a bullshit, isn't it?!
kindly
Roman
PS: One of the greatest jokes is the naming of the CSOs as "Ebonit". This stuff is from cheapest acrylic plastic and briddled/cracked sometimes in the delivery condition already ;-/ The keywork is so weak, that it's already bended from transportation only. What a waste!
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-04-09 15:20
> has this slogan already entered Svitzerland too? What a bullshit, isn't it?!
Along with Aldi and Lidl. Many complain the "Aldization" of the society here, not without reason...sigh.
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Ben
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Author: RoBass
Date: 2010-04-09 15:44
In Germany they cancelled the campaign shortly due to the very negative response . "Geiz ist geil" came a synonyme for "as stupid as possible" ;-)
But a great newspaper "copied" the slogan as "Geist ist geil". This came now a famous campaign against the fire-and-forget-society and the megasellers - culture instead of consume.
I hope to see such development in handcraft business too. First steps are gone...
kindly
Roman
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