Dear members,
I want to share my thoughts with you.
Products with low price and high quality is the absolutely principle.
First,our musical instrument companies should improve our own strength and market competitiveness,also we should ensure the quality of our products.
Second,we should update our products continuously to follow the pace of market development, so that we will not lose the market space.
Third,the price should be reasonable to remain invincible.
In a word,companies must be full of the spirit of innovation and gain the winning advantage when the economic is recovering.
We welcome friends from musical instrument industry to give guidance and referrals.(www.txmyge.com)
I must disagree.
"Products with low price and high quality is the absolutely principle." No, you cannot have a low price and a high quality. "Best product for the best price" equals mediocrity. This is why we are in the problem we are in with American instrument makers. You paid a good fair price for a well made instrument. Then business people came along and wanted to cut costs. The quality of instruments had gone down since.
Historicly during hard economic times more manufacturers make more of their less expensinve instruments so people can entertain themselves at home. Unfortunately, todays families do not have the skills to entertain themselves in the arts so we will see even less quality insturments out on the market.
Save your money and support independent instrument makers or high end top quality instrument makers.
As a supplier of cheap/student parts and accessories, I am certain that it is very important that cheaper - budget instruments and accessories are widely available. Nobody starts with a stradivarius. I, like most students began with a cheap school loaned violin. These days such instruments come from China. I progressed to a cheap second hand European instrument that I could afford ( 20 pounds was a lot in 1970). Suppliers should produce a range of products to suit all pockets.
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My idea is:
Best instruments get the best prices.
Other instruments get buggest prices rather than cutting neck prices
as before.
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When Chinese Mass Violin Makers come into the business, Violin prices
keep going down. Most Violin in the world, including Cremona violins are
inferior quality, that cost several hundreds of dollars a decade ago.
At that time, I entered the US with no penny in my pocket, and I worked
for 5 dollars an hour, and an acceptable violin costed 400 dollars. Now
this violin costs only one or two hundred dollars. At 2 thousand dollars,
I can buy a violin that costs Ten thousands a decade ago. Students can
buy a violin for just half a hundred. They do not need to rent.
You are free to buy a brand, regardless the violin's quality, regardless
the fact that the brand may be merely a piece of paper.
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The time we buy violins by brand is over. Now, it is the era we buy a violin
by playing it, and feeling it vibrating on our shoulder, vibrating through
our jaws to the brain.
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As a string dealer, you may hate the idea that Chinese violin makers can
sell their mass products into the US, killing American talented makers?
Why don't you improve yourself up to the level the Chinese cannot reach?
Why don't you have a trip to China selecting the best violins there, putting
your name on it, and resell at higher prices? I love that idea, and I will
do it if I have enough investment. In doing that I have my pride servicing
the American Violin lovers better than other makers who cannot compet with
the new trend. Unable to do that, I admire whoever doing that in silent.
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