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是harmony central的贴。这小子是瑞典人，在一个店铺里看到了一台中国产的键盘，和一台电钢。说质量乏善可陈的同时，也冷嘲热讽的稍带出了对中国产品的偏见，居然贴子标题就叫“Chinese Nasties”。看了后，很受伤，本想写个贴子告诉他中国有质量过硬的品牌。想想也许是敏感了，小子言辞激烈些，把我们这点国货说得垃圾都不如，但也算就事论事吧。下面那个链接有图片，上面的电钢眼熟，大家看是不是武汉出的那个牌子？
Chinese nasties
Allright, so at this music store i spied something i first dismissed at yet another new low-end Casio keyboard standing hidden in a corner. But, just by chance i noticed that it wasn't a Casio! It was a no-name keyboard, obviously made in China as all such horrible things are, whose box looked very conviningly like a recent Casio model!
Upon closer look though, it lacked a brand name and all the lettering on it was rather irregularly spaced, not to mention the many spelling errors. A logo on the right said "MIDI" just like the classic General Midi logo, but without the first word. Fortunately for my curiosity, it was plugged in and i turned it on, to be greeted by the most inept "piano sample" i've ever heard!
The sounds from this thing could easily belong among the worst sample-based low end toy keyboards from 15 years ago, but for all their roughness, those at least had USABLE sounds. The waveforms on this rip-off sound like out of tune pianos recorded with built-in tape recorder mics, ineptly played wind instruments, improperly looped and with ridiculous slow attacks and short decay. A fair amount of the patches were made from the same ear-numbing samples with just very slightly different envelopes. Many were even totally out of tune between the different registers-and need i add-ridiculous differences in timbre.
All this played through speakers the size and range of those in telephone recievers, but of course placed in larger holes, below a large grille for that true Casio-like impression. After all, if you have to imitate something, you gotta choose the best of the best
Needless to add, the keys themselves were the worst and most unstable such echanism i've ever touched, far below what i even thought were humanly possible. It was only after quite a while that i realized it was actually touch sensitive, it was only that the "max" level was so low that you really need to have a feather-light touch to achieve any dynamic variation. But of course, it would break soon anyway if you didn't
Then, there's the auto accompaniement. You figure out this one yourself, it wasn't pretty. The pitch-bender was very hard to move, i couldn't even get it to move out of center position first. But best of all, it had that large blue display just like a Casio!
All for just $300!
Same bloody price as the Casio it's supposed to look like! Man, they really believe in competition on equal terms
Anyway, i thought it was all over and well when i saw another unit a few feet away that simply said "Digital Piano" on it. It turned out to be another genius product from the same nameless hit-and-run company, complete as all digital pianos should be, with wooden sides and legs, 88 keys, and not too many buttons on the silvery panel. It even boasted that it had a stereo sampled piano, something we know that you just can't go wrong with.
Well, on power on it turned out to have yet another murky, clanky, disgustingly out of tune, poorly looped and not-quite-identifiable as a piano sound, with similar undersized speakers and if possible, even worse key action that makes the MIDI-only keyboards sold at computer stores seem like something to aspire too!
The polyphony was absolutely maximum 16, but it was so poorly programmed that due to some strange "conflicts" it sounded more like four. Also, it had even fewer patches than the "Casio" model, and some of them were the exact same as others! But at least it came at a great price... SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS
Well, if those two atrocities to keyboard-ism was all there ever was, i could have let it pass and simply let the customers make their own choice. The frree market, after all, never lets any overpriced and inferior products keep on getting made and sold for long *crosses fingers* but i noticed the store's own advertising poster, which bragged about their "new line of affordable high quality keyboards", complete with pictures of the same two that i had just tried!
So since i knew the ones who worked there a bit and thought of them to be at least a little less than complete and utter crooks, i asked what those things came from and what they were gonna do with them. He snorted... "Oh yes, those Chinese ones..."
He basically explained that they were included as part of a deal with an importer, when they ordered a batch of Chinese guitars and amplifiers. The importer suggested that they should stock some of their Chinese-made keyboards as well, and the store put a price tag with a picture of it in their ad, before they had actually gotten on of them, and knew what they were. I don't know if they're even actually gonna try to sell the ones they've got now, but i hope for gods sake noone actually buys them for that price
Now i'm curious if anyone here has seen any similar chinese nasties, or perhaps the exact same models, as they are pictured on the site below:
http://www.mamut.com/homepages/Sweden/1/18/ludwigs/subdet16.htm
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