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YONGMEI INDUSTRY
AND COMMERCE CO.,LTD.
This is the Chinese manufacturer of the infamous Yongmei and
Miles
toy keyboards - the undoubtedly worst keyboards of the world (see here
and here). Nowadays Yongmei makes beside
these horrible yelling squeakboxes even professional MIDI keyboards with
LCD and 61 velocity sensitive fullsize keys, but I have not heard any of
these highend models yet. (Possibly they contain Medeli
hardware. Yongmei proudly adverts them to employ a French PCM sound source.)
Their cheaper modern fullsize keyboards seem to be based on similar hardware
like fullsize Sankai instruments (like this),
but many of these models (see here)
still have such severe flaws that they are almost unplayable; mine stank
new unbearably of chemicals and were designed to fraud customers by showing
far more (identical sounding) sounds and rhythms than they actually have.
The newer toy keyboards (see here) of
Yongmei seem to be based on My Music Center
sound hardware. According to their company description ("about us"), the
genuine name of their keyboard factory subsidiary seems to be Meisheng,
which uses only imported ICs and makes no own one.
Funny is that there is even a voting on their site to rate the quality
of their keyboard models, thus when you feel hoaxed by them, don't hesitate
to set your checkmark accordingly. (But I don't know if they anyway cheat
with their rating, since in reality the quality of many Yongmei keyboards
is so ridiculously lousy that it is hard to believe that these got a majority
of positive votes at all.)
