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TerryT
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Hi GT4332WR,
I think you need to try a different on-line translator.
Have you used Babel-Fish? When I need a translator, this is not too bad.
Feed your translation back through the loop to see how far you have deviated from your original meaning.
I would hate to see any wrong translation spoil your interest and responses to this forum. What is your mother language?

NV, I am an international buyer of various commodities, and if I hadn't seen a Chinese company with my own eyes, or have advice from someone with personal experience of them, I would not risk my money.
They do not always supply to the required specification!

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Terry, I think GT4332WR is a spammer - all of his posts are mistranslations of previous posts on the thread, in this case, fiddlerman at #17.

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cdennyb said
@ Dash

you know, even though your violin has a realativly smooth trace, it was low in projection but far better than any Chinese student model I've done to date that had steel core strings. It would be very interesting to see how far we can go on improving it, you know, like bridge mods, and strings, position of bridge and post etc. You never know.

 

I'd also like to retest it after you've played it awhile, like a year maybe? or even a few months of constant practice to see if it has changed at all.

Then we could see if the seasoned wood is really seasoned or just painted pretty. Good idea huh?coffee cheers

Haha yea, I will keep the original strings too then.

I can't read music, but I understand it perfectly.

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dionysia said

Terry, I think GT4332WR is a spammer - all of his posts are mistranslations of previous posts on the thread, in this case, fiddlerman at #17.

Unlike some other forums that I use, I have a lot of respect for ppl on this one and tend to give others the benefit of the doubt.
In another place, at another time, things could have been different babe!
Lolhats_off

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dionysia said
Terry, I think GT4332WR is a spammer - all of his posts are mistranslations of previous posts on the thread, in this case, fiddlerman at #17.

Maybe it's some sort of clever ad bot.  All of the links in the signature go back to another violin lesson site.

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I do believe it is a bad translator.  If nyou carefully read his messeages they do make sense.

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gt4332wr said
Interesting account everyone. Lets accumulate in apperception that duke fabricated can beggarly so abounding things. It's generally a catechism of how abundant and what was fabricated by duke and how abundant by machine. It's the capacity that should absolutely be done by duke including the alternative of the wood.
I anticipate the catechism is added acclimate they were fabricated in accumulation accumulation on an accumulation band verses by a luthier or a accumulation of luthiers who booty pride in the final artefact and can put his name on the instrument.

 

FM said: Interesting ideas everyone. Lets keep in mind that hand made can mean so many things. It's often a question of how much and what was made by hand and how much by machine. It's the details that should really be done by hand including the selection of the wood.
I think the question is more weather they were made in mass production on an assembly line verses by a luthier or a group of luthiers who take pride in the final product and can put his name on the instrument.

Clever bot copying a previous post like hand made is changed to duke etc. Look closely at the 2.

"It can sing like a bird, it can cry like a human being, it can be very angry, it can be all that humans are" Maxim Vengerov

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I agree this is a reeeaaaalllly bad translator. If machine translators would keep to an 8th grade level it would work better.party

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It's a test sent by the Orchestra police! They're onto Fiddlerman after he divulged his tomfoolery in the orchestral ranks.
They think he might be setting up a World Orchestra abomination and are testing the IQ of his students to see if we are up to the challenge.
If you play it backwards it sounds like the theme from the Pink Panther!!

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*gasps* surprised what a vivid imagination! love it heart

"It can sing like a bird, it can cry like a human being, it can be very angry, it can be all that humans are" Maxim Vengerov

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You ARE nuts Terry.rofl

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springer said
You ARE nuts Terry.rofl

I second that. When played backwards, it is CLEARLY LB's Sailor's Hornpipe!!

rofl

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TerryT said

I'm told you have a high IQ Dionysia! Maybe it is you who is setting these tests and the Sailors Hornpipe is just a Red Herring!

**runs away, arms waving madly, wearing nothing but his underpants on his head**

Yes, my IQ is so high I need a ladder to reach it. That is why I hardly ever take it down and use it. roflAnd those underpants won't protect you unless they are lined with tinfoil...

(Sorry, we have totally hijacked this thread!!) Ummmm, machine-made violins, was it?

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you get what you pay for...most of the time

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