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...the biggest bass department brass wind
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:10 pm
by Brassdad
aside from the entertaining english
I really dislike the "mouse sparkles"
http://cgi.ebay.com/beautiful-Tuba-the- ... dZViewItem
Re: ...the biggest bass department brass wind
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:14 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
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
)
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:08 pm
by BopEuph
work:very good
Well, I guess I can relax on that one!
Nick
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:29 pm
by windshieldbug
... 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!
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:28 am
by Kevin Hendrick
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?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:38 am
by windshieldbug
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!!!
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:09 pm
by Brassdad
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:11 pm
by Brassdad
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?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:30 pm
by SplatterTone
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?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:28 pm
by windshieldbug
Brassdad wrote:yesterday the Item Location listed them as being in Be Jing
Obviously, it's gotten much bigger...
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:02 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
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 ...
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:44 pm
by MaryAnn
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