  We briefly review the status of various conventional quark-antiquark mesons
below 2 GeV and outline some open questions: the status of the
strange-antistrange orbitally excited vector meson, the status of the nonet of
axial-tensor mesons (chiral partners of the well known tensor mesons), and the
isoscalar mixing angle in the pseudotensor sector, which can eventually
represent a novel manifestation of the chiral anomaly.
