GUANGZHOU: During the tumultuous years of Mao Zedongs Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, few Chinese dared to buy a piano, which symbolised the West's decadent and bourgeois society.
We didn't have to stop making them but we can't have sold more than a hundred or so a year back then. Learning the piano was frowned upon, said Tong Zhicheng, a 63-year-old piano maker who is now director-general of Pearl River Piano Co.
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