I tried to find out more about those new instrument series but could not find any.

Obviously they revealed those instruments at NAMM 2020.

They may even buy you up lock, stock and barrell. So, don't feel too relaxed about their “low wages” It wont help in future. The Germas are certainly getting alarmed trying to keep a precarious balance in trade.

Could their products be soon as good or - in some cases - even better than ours? As already is the case in the solar industry for example. The Chinese haven’t exactly been sleeping though this has been our hope all along. To hold this off, companies like Bosch, VW, Siemens and countless others allow only their “cheaper lines” of products to be built in China. The real danger lies in ‘outsourced’ factories starting to build as good or even better products than our own. Outsourcing has been going on for long time and without it, our Western standard of living could not be sustained. Besides, workers at Pearl River are not “low paid” but above scale within the Chinese theatre. So, everybody is “low paid” in comparison to some others.

Don’t know how ‘high’ American workers are paid in US piano factories, but not thinking as much or even more than in Germany. Just as the claim of “highly paid labour” doesn’t give anybody a competitive advantage. The statement of “low paid” Chinese labour no longer makes sense in today’s economy.

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