Our contract began last April with the then-Steinway dealership here, only to have them lose Steinway and replace it with Yamaha in late summer. So, our Bostons were replaced with Yamahas in January. A sale was promoted, but didn¹t take place on our campus, and those pianos couldn¹t actually be promoted in a sale in this area, because of legal issues. I¹m not sure they¹ll be able to adequately assess whether the sale was ³successful² as a basis for continuing or terminating at the end of the school year. No word yet. Needless to say, I am prepping pianos of our own to put in place. I¹ve been here a year now, and we might just be able to make it with our own inventory. -- Paul Milesi, RPT Staff Piano Technician Howard University Department of Music Washington, DC From: Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> Reply-To: <caut at ptg.org> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:45:58 -0600 To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Subject: [CAUT] loaner programs I've heard of a number of loaner programs that have ended in the current economic mess. (Loaner programs, meaning, dealers lending new pianos to institutions in exchange for a heavily promoted onsite sale of pianos to the public.) Have others of these programs ended? Do these programs continue as usual in some places? Just curious, Kent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100301/a0fb5d8e/attachment.htm>
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