Yamaha School Loan Program...

[David ilvedson]

Alan,

I am in the beginnings of trying to get the Yamaha loan program 
here with the San Francisco Ballet.  Is Yamaha cutting back on
the loan program.  A local dealer said it is cutting into sales for Yamaha?  
Through this dealer we will be selling all of our 17 year old 
Kawais, which are beat to death, and using the money to buy 
a few pianos and the dealer will loan us the rest.  There after 
we buy a piano a year or so and then start all over.  I am only 
talking about 10 pianos so maybe this is a different deal than 
a university.  

David Ilvedson, RPT


From:           	CRANE@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU
Date sent:      	Thu, 20 May 99 16:39:51 CDT
To:             	CAUT@ptg.org
Subject:        	Yamaha School Loan Program...
Send reply to:  	caut@ptg.org

> John:
> 
> WSU has just gone through its first batch of Yamaha Loan pianos and the
> year-end sale.  Our program is in its infancy and won't officially start
> 'till the new instruments are delivered this summer (the current pianos
> were in the local dealer's inventory already and they chose to get the
> ball rolling with what they had on hand rather than wait a whole year for
> another sale -- these pianos were actually at WSU for only 3 weeks prior
> to this sale).
> 
> I've not seen the contract between the dealer and WSU but it is my
> understanding that it *does* require the university to purchase a
> minimum of one piano per year, though the dealer (an alum.) says that
> can be waived with very little trouble... we'll see.
> 
> There was quite a discussion of this very topic some years ago but I can't
> recall whether it was on CAUT or Pianotech (when it was the de facto
> CAUT list).  You might do a search of the Pianotech archives.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alan Crane, RPT
> School of Music
> Wichita State University
> crane@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
> 


David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA
ilvey@jps.net