On Aug 27, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Aaron Bousel wrote: > Everyone so far agrees we need to go w/ the Yamahas, but I need > specific reasons why the Suzuki or Hailin's don't work---poor tone, > action is known for too request repair I will echo the opinion that Hailun is head and shoulders above Suzuki. I wouldn't be distressed to have some in my inventory - in fact I think I would be happy to, but don't have enough experience to know for sure. I have been favorably impressed with them the last couple years at conventions. BTW, the US sales manager is Basilios Strmenc (of Sauter), and tech support includes, I believe, Keith Bowman and Mike Carrahar. However, returning to the question at hand - how to deal with this on a state purchasing process basis - something that has occurred to me is the possibility of using Larry Fine's book and web site as an objective reviewer of brands. In fact, it might be possible to use it to set up the bidding process, identifying brands and models that would be found acceptable and comparable, and limiting bids to those. Might be worth running that by the purchasing gods. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm
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