Thursday, December 19, 2013

A love letter to Korea

2/22/2007 5:50:00 AM

It was not easy to grow up as an aspiring guitarist in the '80s. And the only reason was not that some of the most interesting music at the time did not come from guitars but from machines called Fairlight, DX-7, Juno and LinnDrum.

It was about money.

It's nice to know that Rickenbacker guitars are still polished by old ladies under the California sun and that Gibson guitars are still made in the good old Nashville. But it's discouraging to know that getting one means that you will have to spend your whole summer holiday at a factory and eat beans for three months. Getting a Gretsch guitar would have meant a bank robbery.


As a musician, I am so glad that the correlation between price and quality has all but disappeared in guitars. As an economist, I should probably write a worried piece about this development.

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