Plastic Chinese Tuba

[Bob Kolada]

That's a little mind bending but not too wonky- my old Conn Giant Eb needed low D played 234...

[Alex C]

Edited::::: Attention all you Texans:
The tuba will be comming to the Dallas warehouse next week
and it will need playing !
They're at 8605 Carpenter Freeway Dallas Tx 75247 214 905-8614.

Apparently not. I've talked to two different people at the store this week and nobody knows anything. "We are getting a plastic trumpet, though," didn't do much for me.

[butch]

$1300 for a probable piece of junk? Wish someone would buy one and tell us about it

http://www.rheinsoundmusic.com/products ... d=1&sid=61

It might be cheaper here:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/p ... 61154.html

Butch

[Dan Schultz]

I wish the Asians would quit the marketing 'gimmicks' and all the introduction of new models and start concentrating on 'getting one right'. I don't think I want to look at just another cheap tuba.

[ghmerrill]

I wish the people (Asians or not) who market these instruments and pretend they're German would stop doing that -- or at least successfully mimic the typical errors that German-speakers make in writing English, rather than the typical errors that Asian language speakers typically make in writing English.

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A simple "These are inexpensive Chinese-manufactured instruments and you might like them if you try them." might be refreshingly sufficient. (Though these particular instruments don't appear to be all that inexpensive compared to Mack Brass, Wessex, and others.) I don't fault them for trying to sell their stuff. It's the pretense that's a bit irksome. But I suppose that's just marketing as usual, and they've learned it all from US marketeers -- another contribution of the US to world culture.