Allen:
As Larry said, the Piano Book, or the reprinted info on the WWW piano
page has a pretty good summary of who makes or owns what brand name.
I wouldn't say that _most_ pianos are made in Korea, but many old
names have been bought out, and this confuses things a lot. The
Korean companies have been the most willing to make stencil brands for
other companies in the past in order to increase total sales and
market share.
Our company (Young Chang) is cutting back it's stencil operations
quite a bit because our factory is having trouble keeping up the
quantity necessary to supply everyone. Also, manufacturing different
specificiations, styles, scales, and brand names all in the same
factory makes general production more complicated and expensive.
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