---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 4/8/04 7:41:52 AM Central Daylight Time, jorge1ml@cmich.edu writes: My concerns about Clavinovas were: 1. Durability 2. Portability (theft potential) 3. Obsolescence 4. What happens if a beverage goes in one? In 1984 I was at a chapter meeting in the Twin Cities when Bill Brandon gave a presentation. One of the things I distinctly remember him saying was that at that time, Yamaha was coming out with a new invention for electronic keyboards every 10 months, and that those instruments were considered obsolete after 18 months. He didn't say this, but government regulations state that if a company guarantees a product, it must maintain inventory for that product for the length of the gurnatee. So if these instruments are guaranteed for 5 years, if anything breaks on one after that, Yamaha is not obligated to keep parts in stock. Considering that they come out with a new instrument every year, you can see how they might not want to keep spare parts in stock any longer than necessary. There is a place for electronic keyboard in school, like portability, recording capabilities, different instrumentation, etc., just to name a few. But if a school (or anyone), is going to buy one, (or 33 of them), they need to start saving to replace it within the next 5 years. Wim Willem Blees, RPT Piano tuner/technician School of Music University of Alabama ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/5b/e4/c5/72/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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