...the biggest bass department brass wind

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:10 pm

aside from the entertaining english

I really dislike the "mouse sparkles"

http://cgi.ebay.com/beautiful-Tuba-the- ... dZViewItem

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:14 pm

Brassdad wrote:... I really dislike the "mouse sparkles"

I'm always looking for good euphemisms -- will have to remember that one!

(actually, I found them momentarily diverting -- kinda fun to play "crack the whip" with 'em

)

BopEuph · Post by **BopEuph** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:08 pm

work:very good

Well, I guess I can relax on that one!

Nick

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:29 pm

... and it's not 'the biggest bass department brass wind', it's "the biggest bass department brass wind instrumentin".

Get it right!

BTW, if you move the mouse off of the active area of the browser, the "sparkles" get really confused, which only seems fair!

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:28 am

windshieldbug wrote:... if you move the mouse off of the active area of the browser, the "sparkles" get really confused, which only seems fair!

But is it exquisitely and marvelously fair?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:38 am

meiyuwuixa2005 wrote:Refund is available if the item you received is different than the description or the photos we listed on eBay

But I wanted mine with the annoying mouse sparkles!!!

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:09 pm

dag-gone-it they updated "part" of their page....yesterday the Item Location listed them as being in Be Jing, USA. Still having a hard time finding that on my MAPQUEST

. Guess I'll have to rule out driving out to pick-up and save on shipping.

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:11 pm

bloke wrote:I bought one of those Chinese B&S copies twenty years ago from an importer who ordered a one-of-each sample set of everything offered by one Chinese factory (c. $300). At that time, this instrument had MANY issues, but still had a good sound, etc.

Many issues but a Good Sound? Help me out...is it a worth seriously considering, or was the good sound something related to the gurguling heard during smelting operations?

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:30 pm

yesterday the Item Location listed them as being in Be Jing

Well, it's that difficult old conundrum:
To be jing, or not to be jing. Was that the question?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:28 pm

Brassdad wrote:yesterday the Item Location listed them as being in Be Jing

Obviously, it's gotten much bigger...

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:02 pm

SplatterTone wrote:
yesterday the Item Location listed them as being in Be Jing
Well, it's that difficult old conundrum:
To be jing, or not to be jing. Was that the question?

It sure was, and I'll be jinged if I can figure it out ...

MaryAnn · Post by **MaryAnn** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:44 pm

bloke wrote:I bought one of those Chinese B&S copies twenty years ago from an importer who ordered a one-of-each sample set of everything offered by one Chinese factory (c. $300). At that time, this instrument had MANY issues, but still had a good sound, etc.

Apparently they copy the tapers reasonbly well; guy I know bought a chinese french horn just to see how it was, and he took it all apart, made everything fit, put it all back together and said it did play as well as what it would cost to buy a horn that played that well to start with.

So if you've got the skills and the curiosity, and if you think you can either sell or play the thing afterwards, it's a better bet than one from India.

But at the IHS workshop in the real Beijing a few years ago, the Chinese kids were playing horns that were unplayable by our standards. Poor kids.

MA

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