What do we make - what will they buy? Spotlight on the export drive : new ideas - new products - new markets
This year's British Musical Instrument Trade Fair attracted many foreign buyers and thousands of pounds worth of orders were taken, but the overwhelming majority of instruments exhibited were imported - many -from the other side of the world
Only a handful of musical instrument manufacturers are exporting home-made goods in any quantity, but the re-export of French, East German and Japanese products is turning Britain into one of the world's leading distributors of other people's musical equipment