An outbreak of piano fever has struck China, with conservative estimates suggesting 30 million Chinese children are learning the instrument and the number set to rise dramatically over the next few years.
Parents vie to get their children into piano schools
Three thousand employees staff eight production lines, each equipped with high-tech machinery for precision engineering.
The company representative showing me around tells me not to photograph any of the machinery without checking with her first.
Industrial espionage, she says, is something the company is very aware of and it does not want rivals getting hold of its new technology.
This plant is not manufacturing cars or computers or mobile phones; it is making pianos, 100,000 of them a year.
The noise of saws and drills mingles with the resonant sound of hammers striking strings, keyboards being tested, dozens of instruments being simultaneously tuned. More...
See also: Stringfever and the History of Music! Nice!
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