Re: [Harp-L] Chugging and Choo-Choo Noises

["Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is indeed some unfortunate pricing of Chromatics such that the discounted Hohner SuperChromonica costs around $199 and that price might be too high for the United States market; the 10-hole Hohner Educator model does not seem to be readily accepted by many students; there should be many more low-cost 12-hole models.

Perhaps Swan [one large manufacturer in China] has been supplying low-cost Chromatics to the students in China while American students are steered towards the diatonic harmonica (which is a really good instrument but does not fit into most school music programs).

/Neil

On Friday, October 17, 2014 at 5:37 PM, bujohn49@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>dollars and sense????
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Harmonicology [Neil Ashby] <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 8:14 am
>Subject: [Harp-L] Chugging and Choo-Choo Noises
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>The issue (would I have been in any way unclear) is that children 
>in China are 
>more often introduced to the Chromatic harmonica than in the 
>United States. Why?
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>/Neil