China is competing with Canada and the USA really hard in what I think of as low to mid range guitars, these are "most bang for buck" instruments.
There seem to be so many nice guitars right now and it seems competition is fueling a push to make even better guitars in this range.
I don't know if it is worth it for the Chinese to build more expensive guitars for a certain market. I bet they could make guitars to complete marginally at the 1500-2000 level and maybe a little above, but they would have to put a lot into it. They seem to do fine below this range and might actually make more profit than if they moved up. I wonder if we will see the Chinese do what Takamine did and offer more expensive instruments in their top linew
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