And realistically, what in Britain is seen as a good quality inexpensive instrument is as much out of the range of most people as a strad. £1000 is a huge amount of money for all but the very privileged. I'll give you an example. In South Africa, five years ago, as an academic, I earned about R70000 a month - the equivalent of less than £7000. Factory workers, teachers, shopworkers, etc - they were all earning a fraction of this. The Chinese instruments we can buy in this country are just not aimed at the ordinary person in the developing world. Exploiting labour to produce cheap instruments isn't going to fix this basic inequity. It isn't going to make music more available, realistically.

You seemed to be suggesting (I may be wrong) that the availability of cheap instruments would somehow benefit struggling musicians in 'developing' countries. My point is that they won't - because these 'cheap' instruments are just as unaffordable - largely because of the terrible wages that make it impossible for exploited labour to afford the product they actually make!

I'm clearly not in fact referring to 'professional' musicians.