Re: Tiger Plastic Tuba review
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:39 pm
Mack Plastic??
Wade,the elephant wrote:Email from the makers:
No mention of price in the email. The price on their website was like $1100 last time I looked. That was without shipping. I think that is their equivalent of MSRP and the Alibaba price is more accurate. However, until someone in the US decides to import them in bulk the shipping will still stay very high, price and shipping dropping as order size increases, as with anything else like this. They are not interested in selling to us directly, so stuff is set high. I wonder who will end up seriously marketing these things and what the price will end up being.Hi Mr.Wade Rackley,
Thank you for interested in Tiger plastic instruments.
US retailers have not been determined yet. If you'd like purchase now, place an order on our website and state color option.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Zhong Qiang
Rheinsound (Beijing) Musical Instrument Co.,Ltd
2-7F Meilin Garden 33# Zi-Zhu-Yuan Rd
Beijing P.R.CHINA 100089
Tel: 86-10-885 501 99
Fax: 86-10-885 504 37
http://www.rheinsoundmusic.com" target="_blank" target="_blank
This would make a great "scooter tuba" if the price and quality were right.MartyNeilan wrote:It looks like you could order one from here:
http://www.rheinsoundmusic.com/index.ph ... id=22&id=8
If I had $960 lying around with nothing better to do I would give it a try, but the $350 shipping is a bummer.
Look at 'How is the NAMM show?'the elephant wrote:No mention of price in the email. The price on their website was like $1100 last time I looked.
Hi-Ulli wrote:Look at 'How is the NAMM show?'the elephant wrote:No mention of price in the email. The price on their website was like $1100 last time I looked.
Rheinsound (Beijing) Musical Instrument Co.,Ltd. wrote to me:
Hello Mr. ,
Thank you for interested in Tiger plastic instruments.
We are going to exhibit on NAMM show. Frankfurt music show have not been confirmed yet.
Net weight of tuba is 5.5kg. Price is $960, freight extra.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.
Best regards,
Zhong Qiang
Could anyone test that tuba for me and all interested persons here?
Thank you.
Ulli
How true. One of the reasons for the dismal sale of the electric Leaf vehicle is because salesmen don't want to be bothered charging them. They also actively dissuade customers from purchasing them due to additional paperwork involved (because of the charging station that may be installed in their home.)the elephant wrote: Try to buy a Jeep Wrangler and ask the salesman how to raise and lower the soft top or how to remove the hard top. Ask what the swaybar disconnects and lockers on the Rubicon actually do. Then ask for a demonstration of all this. Chances are that he will manage to un-sell the vehicle. I already knew just about everything to know about my Jeep prior to walking onto the lot. I bought it in under 30 minutes at a decent price. The salesperson managed to badly damage a demo vehicle in the process and learned to either steer her "ups" away from Wranglers or to learn more about Wranglers. (She disconnected and locked up in 4WD and then drove me all over the area in parking lots and in traffic. She smoked the clutch and lockers and put visible divots in the rear tires from all the wheel hop she forced on the vehicle. It was epic. Obviously I purchased a different example that only had 2 miles on the odo and still had the packing plastic on everything.)
Most instrument salesmen today seem to be like this. They only know the barest of minimums, usually for the top selling items only. The other "stuff" is that "stuff" that his boss made him drag to the show that he will make zero commission from. So why bother learning anything about stuff that will only waste your time? This is the normal attitude these days. I remember when buying a demo tuba meant that it was probably a super fine example. Back then you had to wait until the circuit of shows was over so they no longer needed this superb, hand-picked example. Now I see horns at shows that play like crap and are not actually fully functional.
Whatever. We are willfully teaching our kids to be like this; we do this to ourselves.
i saw that you followed up with he's a "great player," Donn, but the phrase you were looking for is "Grammy Award Winning player."Donn wrote:
Don't be like this trumpet player -
If the tuba continues making a sound after the note stops playing then there is unwanted sympathetic vibration. I fail to understand how that is a benefit. Everything from heavyweight mouthpiece to heavyweight valve caps, extra bracing, "tone rings" to brass strips soldered to the bell has been done to reduce that on overly live horns.imperialbari wrote:Saw the video: Thanks for making it!
What I do not like about the sound is that the decay dies very fast, which in turn tells me that the tuba is not as alive in lower dynamics as I want it to be.
That could be a problem with the playing, but I also listened to the opening of your review of the Wessex Tornister BBb, where I heard a more alive & warm sound and less dying of the decay.
Klaus