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your Parker DF is certainly an example of an instrument that achieves high standards of quality and function because of CAD modelling prior to manufacturing.<...>



I don't care that it wasn't hand crafted, the result is superb.

And somebody put some magic in there somewhere along the way

Plus it was made in the USA! (Nothing wrong with that).






I didn't mean to suggest there was anything wrong with automation (and CERTAINLY nothing wrong with being American made!) ... in fact, my opinion is that automation dramatically INCREASES the quality of nearly any product.

Many of the same comparisons we make between BIAB and "real musicians" (never show up late, never make mistakes, don't drink your beer, don't talk back etc" could also be made about industrial robots and automated processes in general.

They don't take breaks (so production is high and the final cost to you is lower)
They don't have bad days (consistent quality and high customer satisfaction)
They work to a much higher degree of precision than a human could EVER do... and they can keep it up indefinitely.

in our plant, some processes are automated and some are manual. WITHOUT EXCEPTION, the highest number of customer complaints are because of the high human variability in the manual processes.

The higher price associated with hand crafted instruments is mostly due to the long hours it takes a human to do an inferior job. The low price of automated instruments is because they can be made so much faster without errors , rework or scrap to add cost.

If you could buy a production line instrument for $700 or an equivalent hand made item for $3,000, you'd have to choose the $3,000 instrument for some reason OTHER than quality and precision craftsmanship.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0