Re: [Harp-L] Hohner Price Increase

[Garry <harp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/01/2011 08:48 PM, Bill Kumpe wrote:
> I ask you.  What is so special about a couple of bucks worth of wood or
> plastic, stainless and brass that justifies continual price increases with
> marginal increases in quality while the rest of the music industry and
> industry in general has done just the opposite?
i'll ignore the electronics parts of this.  apples and oranges.

doing a little searching, i found some sales figures for guitars and harps:

guitar: $17,856,539,000 in 2005

http://www.vintagerock.com/fakeguitars.aspx

hohner harmonicas: $68.2 million in 2001

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Matth-Hohner-AG-Company-History.html

admittedly, this is just for hohner, but they're a big part of the market.
but you can buy a lot of tooling and automation and process improvement
with $17 billion dollars.


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