Guzheng instrument, buy in China or US?

[rongnjohn]

Hello everyone,

 

My Sweetheart is taking Guzheng instrument lessons in China. She is interested continuing with the instrument when she comes to the US, which brings up the question:

 

Has anyone successfully bought and shipped an instrument from China to the US? Or has anyone had success buying one in the US? From a preliminary costing analysis it appears that shipping the instrument to the US from China may almost be as expensive as the instrument itself.

 

Finally, if anyone has purchased an instrument in the US could you please recommend a seller?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

John

[dnoblett]

Very Nice!! We socialize with the Chinese Choral Society of Rochester, one member plays that instrument.

 

I would recommend buy there and have it shipped over, I would suspect buying one in the states would be costly due to it having to be imported anyway.

http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/img/Guzheng-lessons.jpg

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzheng

Edited July 14, 2010 by dnoblett (see edit history)

[slw268]

Very Nice!! We socialize with the Chinese Coral Society of Rochester, one member plays that instrument.

 

I would recommend buy there and have it shipped over, I would suspect buying one in the states would be costly due to it having to be imported anyway.

http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/img/Guzheng-lessons.jpg

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzheng

Coral Society?

They sing underwater?

 

Just kiddin' Dan

 

Anyway, I shipped my priceless Martin Guitar from there to here.

No problem. I had a very good case and loosened all the strings.

[dnoblett]

Very Nice!! We socialize with the Chinese Coral Society of Rochester, one member plays that instrument.

 

I would recommend buy there and have it shipped over, I would suspect buying one in the states would be costly due to it having to be imported anyway.

http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/img/Guzheng-lessons.jpg

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzheng

Coral Society?

They sing underwater?

 

Just kiddin' Dan

 

Anyway, I shipped my priceless Martin Guitar from there to here.

No problem. I had a very good case and loosened all the strings.

Hehe Corrected that while you were posting. You should hear my wife pronounce choral "CH"oral!

 

But yes shipping is fairly safe, just do try to ship it as checked baggage.

 

Edited July 14, 2010 by dnoblett (see edit history)

[TLB]

Hello everyone,

 

My Sweetheart is taking Guzheng instrument lessons in China. She is interested continuing with the instrument when she comes to the US, which brings up the question:

 

Has anyone successfully bought and shipped an instrument from China to the US? Or has anyone had success buying one in the US? From a preliminary costing analysis it appears that shipping the instrument to the US from China may almost be as expensive as the instrument itself.

 

Finally, if anyone has purchased an instrument in the US could you please recommend a seller?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

John

 

Rather than buy it yourself and ship it, you can buy over the web from a Chinese seller and have them ship it. For example:

 

http://www.shoppingchinanow.com/shop/guzheng.html

[hakkamike]

There are clases listed on Craigslist and a few instruments also, give one or two a call and I bet they can hook u up with one.

http://www.searchallcraigs.com/results.php...s.com%252F#2495

[rongnjohn]

Thank you to everyone for your suggestions. They give us ideas to work with. Thank you,

 

John

[Scott@Hong]

Might be able to just carry it onto a plane. I just returned from Chongqing and awhile back we shipped a large wedding picture thinking it was to big to carry on and it arrived with broken frame. This time I had another large picture (3'x4') which I decided to just try to carry on to plane.

 

Another plus for Air China, I walked right onto plane, flight attendant asked me if package was fragile and I said yes, and she took picture and stowed it in the first class cabin closet for me.

When I got off plane in New York flight attendant had picture waiting for me at the door. And noone even thought about charging me extra for doing this.

 

Have to love non American airlines

[Randy W]

Tony aclassic is a member who has made more than one trip to purchase musical instruments. You might try contacting him or checking out some of his posts on the subject

[rongnjohn]

Tony aclassic is a member who has made more than one trip to purchase musical instruments. You might try contacting him or checking out some of his posts on the subject

 

Thanks Randy!

 

John