Do NOT buy these instruments!!

I HAVE to post because - NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO and a heaping helping of NOOOOOOOO!!!
Anyone who loves their child and wants them to learn an instrument should go right past this display and buy the child a fifth of Jack and a carton of cigarettes, because IT WILL DO LESS DAMAGE!
Arturo Sandoval, when he was a child growing up in Cuba, gave up his only pair of shoes to get a cornet. Compared to these instruments, that cornet was gloriously legitimate, the trade equivalent of Jimmy Choo shoes. I started on a Blessing cornet, which would be the blessing of angels compared to these monstrous, potentially lead containing, travesties of form. A hole will melt in them if you look at them too heatedly, and avoid the ghost pepper for dinner if you want them to last more than a day......
Long ago, my VERY BEST starters EVER (truly, no knock to any former student, but these twin boys came out of the musical petting zoo with a clarinet and cornet and were ready to move up to the next band in about a week!) had starter instruments that were just under $700, each. Dad traded them that December for Christmas presents of the new Chinese made instruments that were less than $100 each. They were immediately worse, fighting to get those little NON-INSTRUMENTS to work, and dropped out before the end of the year.

These pieces of junk are WORSE than a used instrument ready for the junk pile. The junk pile of instruments would look at them with disdain. They are like buying a rickshaw instead of a car. They are the kind of crap that crap ridicules.

I know, I know, the argument is that musical instruments are TOO expensive. I would argue that, in instruments, you really do get what you pay for, including hand-done adjustments and modifications. Also, an instrument is NOT a toy. If you want these as a toy - give them to your dog. Rent to own something of medium quality, DON'T fall for this foolishness.

This story is about making instruments in a dump in Paraguay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFY6wu3FfU, and ALL of those instruments are hand made and higher quality than anything you will buy from those cheap instrument displays. Avoid the trap!