80 Million Piano-Players
"Currently, as many as 80 million children play the piano in China and the factory churns out one keyboard a minute. China is evidently in the grip of some kind of fever. Rachmaninov seeps from loudspeakers and you can scarcely make it ten yards down the street before being forced to buy an illegal Goldberg Variations box set. If you'd ever suspected Brahms could be used as a deadly weapon, then here was the proof." New Statesman 06/19/08

Posted June 19, 2008 08:28 AM