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Post by piccolo + ADD = fun on Jul 17, 2008 21:47:07 GMT -5
i dunno...then again, he probably did.
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Post by sombresagacity on Jul 17, 2008 22:34:56 GMT -5
I love love love my Gemeinhardt flute. It's a 3BSH (solid silver head, gold lip, silver-plated body, open-hole, inline g, b foot... you know how I do!!) and I've been nothing but happy with it!! Although, I must say that I don't like Gemeinhardt's beginner flutes. Like, at all. I learned on a Selmer, and it did the job pretty well. Honestly, I haven't played a beginner flute in so long that I don't even know what I would prefer the best. Just not Gemeinhardt  And my piccolo, ohhh my baby. I have a Roy Seaman with solid silver keys (and it's obviously grenadilla with a bulb-style headjoint, since it's an RS). I really wanted a Wm. S. Haynes, but the RS was a stretch on the dolla dolla billz. It counted as a gift for 2 birthdays, 1 Christmas, and high school graduation. When I played bassoon in high school, I played on a Fox that was a couple of decades old, I believe. I don't remember the model, but it was wood (thank *insert diety here*) and it had all the bells and whistles. It was the most beautiful instrument that I've ever played. The sound was perfect, everything worked well, and it gave me a musicgasm every time I played it. |
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Post by mandadm on Jul 17, 2008 22:41:02 GMT -5
I like Yamaha's. But, I haven't played on anything else. Besides a First Act. Which are really crappy and way cheap.
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Post by altoclarinets on Jul 18, 2008 20:42:48 GMT -5
^one girl in my beginning band class had a First Act, she never made above 23rd chair of a section of 25 (we're a big district)
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Post by oboehorn77 on Aug 1, 2008 13:43:51 GMT -5
First Act, is that like BandNow that sells super cheap instruments that belong in a trash can? There are some... I think they're Chinese?... companies that change their names every few years so that when band directors make a "DO NOT BUY LIST" their brand won't be on them. I can't name any though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2008 14:12:30 GMT -5
I know at least one Indian company that's kind of like that, only their instruments are actually playable just not very good.
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Post by piccolo + ADD = fun on Aug 1, 2008 16:14:35 GMT -5
First Act, is that like BandNow that sells super cheap instruments that belong in a trash can? There are some... I think they're Chinese?... companies that change their names every few years so that when band directors make a "DO NOT BUY LIST" their brand won't be on them. I can't name any though. I can, Venus is one. |
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Post by Duel of the Flutes on Aug 2, 2008 10:55:18 GMT -5
I have to specify mine, because only one of my favorite brands are on there.  the one that I actually picked was Selmer, because I LOVE their saxes. I've also heard that their clarinets aren't so bad, either. the ones that weren't up there, though, were Pearl flutes and Emerson. I have a Pearl flute (I lovet their flutes... they're like my soulmates  ), and an Emerson piccolo, and I love them both. Emerson piccolos, though... I don't like all of their piccolos. Just the model I have. |
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Post by nphsdm on Aug 2, 2008 17:40:17 GMT -5
I have a 7th grade student who plays on a Venus flute...
"Gold" Keys,
Open hole
B-foot
"Gold" lip plate
E-mech
Horrid instrument.
Gemenihardt is great for the new flutist. I learned to play on a 2SP. Selmer makes a pretty decent flute too. Armstrong used to be good way back in the day before I existed.
Right now I play on a Yamaha everything.
Yamaha 361H series Flute (open hole, silver head, b-foot)
Yamaha 62C series Piccolo (Pro model. Gendella Wood. some other stuff)
Yamaha YTS-475 series Tenor Sax (Int. Model. Some other stuff... I dunno much about sax)
But I'd really like to have a Miyuzawa flute one day... the keys are so light on those things... too bad one of their headjoints is like twice the amount of my flute ><
Never liked Jupiter Flutes. I just sound like crap on them... The flute picks the player I guess...
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Post by altoclarinets on Aug 5, 2008 11:18:49 GMT -5
A friend of mine has an amazing plastic marching clarinet that she got new for like $600- its keywork is more balanced than an r13, which is amazing, but it's plastic. I can't remember the exact brand, but it was like andelan or andien, something like that. I'll tell you when I figure it out.
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Post by mandadm on Sept 2, 2008 20:22:29 GMT -5
Anybody heard of Antigua Winds brand??
It's the brand of the alto I'm borrowing from the school.
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Post by Duel of the Flutes on Sept 3, 2008 21:38:35 GMT -5
First Act, is that like BandNow that sells super cheap instruments that belong in a trash can? There are some... I think they're Chinese?... companies that change their names every few years so that when band directors make a "DO NOT BUY LIST" their brand won't be on them. I can't name any though. I can, Venus is one. Those things are terrible. I had a friend who bought a Venus tenor sax and piccolo (at least, I'm 99% sure it was Venus), and both were pieces of crap. When she got them, everyone was fascinated by the pretty colors (black with gold lacquered keys on both), but I was sitting there waiting for the things to break. (the tenor did, but she now has a different piccolo) |
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Post by altoclarinets on Sept 8, 2008 19:30:22 GMT -5
It's called andino, I found out.
Hm there are a lot of kids in my band with off- color or vintage finish instruments. Amazingly they're all saxophones. Goooo fig.
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Post by mhycal on Dec 1, 2008 23:07:35 GMT -5
I've got a Yamaha alto sax that I'm quite in love with. As for flute, I have an Altus Azumi model that is the best! or..well, for me it is. I haven't tried many flutes. All in all, I've had terrible experiences with Selmer saxes and Geimenhart (sp?) flutes. But, they were school instruments...so...yeah.
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Post by flutefanatic on Jun 21, 2009 20:48:15 GMT -5
Yamaha and Sonare
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