India or Wallmart

Douglas · Post by **Douglas** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:28 pm

Well... I went to Wall Mart today and i saw now they are selling instruments at Wall Mart.

Doug Black

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:10 pm

If someone on the board will give me a grant to do the research (aka you pay for everything), I'll go get some horns from both and compare them.

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:20 pm

schlepporello wrote:
Doug@GT wrote:If someone on the board will give me a grant to do the research (aka you pay for everything), I'll go get some horns from both and compare them.
And afterwards, we can take them to the skeet range and............

Exactly.

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Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:56 pm

My local (Evansville, Indiana) is selling ACT1 instruments for $179.95. The choices are a flute, a clarinet, or a trumpet. These things are Chinese and wait until parents try to get them fixed and it costs more for a few simple repairs that the horn cost new! The horns look OK but the quality is not there.... yet! But wait... the quality will improve as time goes on. Yamaha sucked when they first started sending horns to the US. I bought a Maestro (Chinese) 4V Wagner-style euphonium a couple of months ago just to see what it was all about. As it turned out, the less-than-$300 piece of crap actually played pretty darned good. I had three guys fighting over it to purchase it! I'm certainly not a big fan of all the junk on the market but it's a fact of life.... and the manufacturers will continue to peck away at the quality until it is acceptable. I think it's all very healthy competition to the guys who charge waaaayyy too much for their instruments and especially the ones who put strict limits on their dealers to the point where there is no local competition.

CJ Krause · Post by **CJ Krause** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:27 am

CJ Krause · Post by **CJ Krause** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:09 am

Lew · Post by **Lew** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:31 am

I will not respond to this poll because my answer would have to be none of the above. That isn't to say that Wal Mart might not at some time sell real instruments, rather than pieces of materials made to look like instruments, or that some instruments made in India might be decent at some time. Just that at this time, neither outlet provides instruments that are worth owning for any purpose.

Mudman · Post by **Mudman** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:36 am

I go to WalMart a few times a month, but have never been to India. Sounds like a good vacation, even if I do need to lug back a chrome-plated paperweight.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:21 am

This sounds roughly equivalent to a choice between offered a choice between a firing squad and the gas chamber.

daktx2 · Post by **daktx2** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:52 pm

the local music repair store is actually repairing these now, but they charge a huge amount on labor of course. the parents that buy these things need to be educated on where to get a quality horn. its a growing problem.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:40 pm

Since you didn't specify the instrument, I'd say that if I was looking for a sitar or a tabla, I'd definitely consider India before Wal-Mart.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 5:18 pm

Andrew Baker wrote:I should be carefull how I answer this one, but i'm not. Half of New Dehli lived in my apartment before I did, so I would have to assume that the country of India smells somewhat like my apartment did. That being said I would choose Wal-Mart, it may be bad quality, but at least it wont smell like my apartment.

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