Re: [Harp-L] Has anyone bought a SWAN chromatic before?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

You get what you pay for. Your new Swan may play just fine. But if, after playing it for a few
months, you then tried a Suzuki or Seydel or Hohner, I bet you'd notice
a positive difference.

Low priced Chinese brands like Swan and Golden Cup tend to show less quality control than instruments from the better known German and Japanese brands. Do some of the German and Japanese main-line products come from Chinese factories as the Chinese manufacturers claim and their supposed customers deny? If so, the quality controls seem to be higher when the factory is making "foreign" products. T

Still, for 50 bucks, if you don't already own a chromatic, and you get a decent one (which is entirely possible), then this is an economical way to get started.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Wed, 12/3/08, guy henderson <ghenderson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: guy henderson <ghenderson@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Has anyone bought a SWAN chromatic before?
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 9:11 AM

Hello all,

 

On a lark I bought a chromatic 12 hole 48 tone Swan from
www.virtualvillage.au.com <http://www.virtualvillage.au.com/> . The price
was what caught my eye for about 50 bucks I had a chromatc 48 tone harp.
Best price I have ever seen for one so I bought it sounds good to me. I am
more of a diatonic harper myself but figured most of the people in my Hoot
org would like to know about it. Has anyone seen and heard these before and
how good are they. The actual cost was 34.86 and 15 bucks shipping from
Australia. 

 

That's

 

guy

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