Doublereed Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2003/07

From: EnglandWLa15@-----.com
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: Music on the 4th--patriotic instruments?
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:29:35 -0400

In a message dated 7/8/03 5:11:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
jimkatz@-----.ca writes:

>
> On the issue of Chinese instruments. It seems like China is in the same
> spot as Japan was 30-50 years ago, producing lots of low quality stuff. The
> marketplace and the entrepreneurs will pull up the quality soon enough.

China is a communist country, and most of it's merchindise comes from the
laogai labor camps.