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The significance of France?

Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-02-07 22:33

Hi all, I've been thinking alot about professional instruments and generic instruments and how they are produced seperately albeit France and Germany just to name a few. What made it so popular to designate France as a representative of professional quality instruments? By dubbing anything from France is professional, we carry a bias towards anything un "French" as inferior. Was this just a marketing stunt? or is production just cheaper there in France? Or let me ask this, are there more professional musicians in France than anywhere else? Sorta like the hub of musicians?

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau

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2007-02-07 22:33