Re: looking for a mandocello for a student
Originally Posted by
Martin Jonas
Don't know the house brand model -- it says "Made in Europe" and as it doesn't look like a Hora, I suspect it's either by Soares'y or by Musikalia. Good price, so may be worth a try.
I have a Suzuki mandocello (MC-815 -- the predecessor of the MC-836 at Thomann, looking very similar but with maple back and sides). I like it a lot and it works very nicely for classical playing with Thomastic MC strings, but Thomann won't ship it to the US: it has rosewood in it and comes under the new CITES restrictions.
Martin
I know I'm being lazy not looking it up myself Martin, but any idea why you can make an instrument out of rosewood but not export it? What possible difference could that make to the species in question?
EDIT: sorry, silly question I guess; the instruments were probably built prior to the new regulations. Still don't understand why no export though. Wonder what this will do to all the instrument builders who have stocks of rosewood. Nothing good obviously. Seems to me the sensible approach by CITES-compliant governments would be to permit existing stocks to be used, including export of finished products, provided they register those stocks with the authorities via dated proof of purchase etc.
Last edited by Mike Anderson; Jun-11-2017 at 5:02pm.
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