B. B.: A trick question, Mr. Schilke, — why do you never show your own instruments at the Frankfurt Fair?
R. S.: I have no instruments to show. As soon as an instrument leaves my workshop, it goes off to the buyer for whom it was made. So I never have enough left to show...
B. B.: Some firms are lucky! Do you think, in general, that the business done here in Frankfurt this year has increased?
R. S.: In fact I think that more business is being done than ever, in spite of the fluctuating exchange rates between the various strong currencies. The demand for instruments keeps rising. In fact it seems to be reaching a record. However, because of ever more selective criteria of quality, the benefits of this activity elude those who have not had the ability or the skill to adapt to the evolutionary movement.