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As for Chinese-made guitars: Love em. Like American guitars, there are hits and misses. But the increased quality coming out of the East is great for us consumers.

And, even as a journalist, I know about outsourcing. Believe it or not, newspaper copy editors have been outsourced to several countries, mostly India. Talk about an oddity: People living thousands of miles away editing stories based in, say, Orange County. I shake my head just thinking about it.