{"id":44577,"date":"2016-03-29T09:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=44577"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:36:04","slug":"review-of-a-jinyin-made-bass-sax-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2016\/review-of-a-jinyin-made-bass-sax-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of a Jinyin-Made Bass Sax From China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by H. Kahlke \u00a92016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jinyin-made bass sax<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Stencil name:<\/strong> <\/span>Xu Qiu, but Jinyin stencilled bass saxophones for anyone who ordered them including, but certainly not limited to: International Woodwind, Orpheo, Hawk, and Gear4Music.<\/p>\n

Price:<\/span><\/strong> Varied widely. Ranged from $2,000 to $8,000 US \u2013 depending on stencil label<\/p>\n

Date of manufacturing:<\/span><\/strong> circa 2010<\/p>\n

Date of review:<\/span> <\/strong>2016<\/p>\n

About a month ago, I met a local player who owns a Jinyin-made bass sax stencilled with the name Xu Qiu<\/a>. Since my website is one of the few (the only?) on the Net that has an extensive pictorial and brand-name inventory of both Jinyin and Jinbao-made bass saxophones, I thought I should at least make an effort to play the instrument\u2014since I have not seen, let alone played one of these cheap Chinese bass saxes before.<\/p>\n

I must admit, I was fully expecting that this instrument would be the saxophone equivalent of a tin can. However, this Jinyin-made bass sax was anything but. It was heavy as hell. It was likely as heavy as, if not slightly heavier than, my Buescher True Tone. Quite frankly, that surprised me, and the surprises didn’t stop there.<\/p>\n

Note: I apologize in advance for the quality of the photos in this review. Since I was shooting these in the owner’s living room, there are a lot of reflections of objects\u2014mostly me \ud83d\ude09 \u2014in the lacquer of the horn. I also didn’t have my tripod with me, and my neuro problem has been giving me quite a bit of grief of late. Some of the pics are not as clear as I would like them to be. Oh well… Shit happens…<\/p>\n

Specs<\/h2>\n