ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the newly developed phenomenon that China is the biggest piano producer in the world in the 2000s. It discusses China's piano-making history prior 1978, the year China opened up its economy and reengaged with globalization. The development of Luoshe's piano industry originated from Huzhou Piano Factory (HPF), the first non-state-owned piano factory since the establishment of communist China. Luo's successful transformation should not only be attributed to the firm itself but also to the local and global interaction of China's piano industry. The chapter argues that piano production in China should be understood in terms of its local and global production interactions in response to the dramatic growth of the global piano market. The theoretical part, the 'coincidence' of China as the world's piano production factory as well as the world's piano sale market seems to reflect the industrial transition of the piano.
