Article: UMI's hi-tech horn making. (United Musical Instruments USA Inc.) (School Music Market Report)

Over the past few decades, the general design of wind instruments have remained virtually unchanged. To the average student, they look the same and they play the same, which prompts many to mistakenly conclude that they are manufactured in the same way. In actuality, the static nature of instrument design belies a dramatic revolution in manufacturing technologies. Faced with sharply rising labor costs, a shortage of skilled laborers, and an increasingly quality-conscious market, wind instrument, interested in meeting these demands have restructured their manufacturing operations over the past decade. Thus, while a player from twenty years ago would be at home with any new ...

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