Recommended models: T008k, T2406, T2403, T12-48K, T008s
Looking at the global harmonica field, German and Japanese brands firmly occupy the medium and high port piano market with excellent product strength and cost performance. Oriental Musical Instruments is a representative of such manufacturers, mainly producing harmonica, accordion, children's percussion and other musical instruments. Founded in 1997, Dongfang Ding is a brand of Dongfang Musical Instruments, and has been one of the largest harmonica production brands in China. Based on the local area, Oriental Musical Instruments enjoys an excellent reputation in the domestic harmonica industry by holding various harmonica and harmonica art festivals, compiling "harmonica" teaching materials, and publishing "Chinese harmonica" magazine.
Dongfang Ding's harmonica products are abundant. Polyphonic, chromatic, and ten-hole harmonica are all covered, which are super cost-effective and have no lack of highlights, and are favored by more and more harmonica lovers.
For ten-hole beginners with a limited budget, T008k is recommended first, which is the popular ten-hole harmonica launched by Dongfang Ding at the end of 2014, the piano can be bought at a price of less than 70 yuan on the domestic e-commerce platform, which is almost the only choice at this price, excellent sound pressure performance, labor-saving playing, and there will be no common high-pitched sound difficult to blow problem of low-cost harmonica, suitable for beginners to buy.
If you're new to chromatic scales and have a relatively limited budget, the T12-48K is a good entry, also known as the Golden Dreamer. The use of imported phosphor bronze reeds, mellow timbre, in terms of air tightness belongs to the Chinese brand harmonica leader, easy to blow and good pitch performance, the price is about 300 yuan, it is worth buying for novices.
In terms of polyphonic harmonica, Dongfang Ding T2406 and T2403 are more cost-effective, the reeds need to be well tuned, the Douyin situation is not easy to appear, and the volume and timbre are also competitive at the price of 250 yuan. However, there is still a gap between the performance of high-end skills and Tongbao's 6624, and there are not as many choices as Tongbao in terms of modulation types.