[Watt]

Soul, whatever that means, has nothing to do with it. Chinese guitars, like American, Irish, British, etc, are built with specific price points and markets in mind. Obviously, with their labor costs, manufacturers in China, Indonesia, and other Eastern countries, can more readily produce superior products in the lower price categories. And some are sufficiently good that they might satisfy a player who would otherwise be in the market for one of the well-known and more expensive American guitars. But that's not the market to which their instruments are directed. You surely know that Yamaha produces some exceptional and exceptionally expensive guitars. The quality of those instruments is no less than any comparably priced U.S. guitars. Is the "soul" and history of Japanese guitar building fundamentally different from Chinese?

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