On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Laurence Libin wrote: > The linked article and comments have important implications for > techs. Be prepared! > Laurence > Here at UNM it seems like the liberal arts and humanities may be stagnating or shrinking, but the performing arts, especially music and film, are expanding rapidly. Studio art as well. What worries me is the collapse of the dealer networks and retail market. When I started in the business 30 years ago, Albuquerque had several full size dealers: Steinway/Wurlitzer, Baldwin (two stores), Kimball (two stores), Yamaha, plus smaller concerns selling Young Chang, Everett, Lowrey/Story & Clark (shopping mall), not counting some folks selling used instruments. All were locally owned and reasonably prosperous. Today, the latest Steinway dealer is going out of business, and once it is gone we will be left with a fairly new store selling Yamaha, Schimmel and generally top end grands, a mall store selling Chinese product, and a small concern selling digitals and stocking one or two Kawai acoustics. Period. No used, no nothing else. In those 30 years, Albuquerque metro has at least tripled in population. That is downright sobering. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm http://www.youtube.com/fredsturm http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm
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