Guitar brands from small town strive for fame


Li Qingsheng tunes a guitar in Tangwu. — Xinhua

AFTER working in the guitar industry for more than a decade, Li Qingsheng, a former farmer, has honed the skill to distinguish the desired timbre and tune more than 300 electric guitars a day.

Li works at the Changyunda musical instrument company in Tangwu, a small town in east China’s Shandong Province which has been the manufacturing hub of musical instruments, especially guitars, for decades.

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