Re: [Harp-L] Made in China thread

Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> · Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:51:16 -0400

On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Aongus MacCana wrote:
Like another reader has already said I am old enough to remember  
when "made

in Japan" was synonymous with "cheap and nasty".

I remember when it was 'OCCUPIED Japan' and their toys were made from  
old beer cans.
Even as recently as thirty years ago Japanese cars were considered  
"slightly

dodgy", but when I was on a visit to Boston a few years ago I was  
taken

aback when I eyeballed the cars backed up at the traffic lights  
near my

hotel. Ten out of twelve cars were Japanese!

When they first came over they were small and easy on gas. BUT, now  
they  keep making them more and more powerful and thirstier. The  
whole easy on gas thing was a ploy to get in the door.
On a recent trip to Germany I was told that Hohner is now owned by  
Chinese

and that the bulk of their production is in China.

Seydel Harmonicas are made in Germany, but I was told that this  
company is

now owned by U.S. principals.

I guess the world is getting smaller every day and China is bound  
to start

aggressively looking for it's "fair share of the goodies" sooner  
than we

think.

I don't blame China at all. It's the AMERICAN industrialists. Our  
fathers & grandfathers worked in the mills & mines and as soon as  
their 53 year fight to unionize was realized, the greedy robber  
barons couldn't stand seeing us come out of our caves and into  
houses, so they moved all production off shore.
smo-joe
Aongus Mac Cana
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