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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2004/08

From: Jim Katz <jimkatz@-----.ca>
Subj: [DR-L] Those awful Chinese instruments
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:10:22 -0400

Whenever this topic comes up, the Chinese oboes and bassoons and the rest
are roundly dumped on, which is fine as far as it goes. What we really need
is someone who is in the right spot to contact the manufacturer and see if
we can improve the situation. If the keywork is bad because they are using
leftover noodle dough, they could perhaps benefit from a suggestion or two.
The social issues would even improve as they sold more good instruments,
could pay the workers more, etc. Let's face it, if they were making good
knock-offs of Heckels and Lorees we would snap them up. Several old names
and tooling in pianos have been bought up by Chinese manufacturers, and I'm
told that they are making some good instruments; not professional concert
machines, but good mid-level home and apartment pianos.

Jim

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