Y'all: First of all, I am prejudiced. (1) The college where I both service a large number of pianos and also supervise two tuners who work for my company, recently purchased a number of American-made grand pianos for their teaching and practice studios. A highly opinionated, very vocal, and politically correct piano teacher refused to check out available makes and upon finding out that the budget would not support S&S opted for another American brand. In due time the other pianos arrived and they turned out to be thoroiughly shoddy in material and workmanship. The action flanges feeland act more;like soft pine than hard maple.. (Of course I may be mistaken, maybe the wood is mesquite.) At any rate nothing stays where you put it. I am increasing fees because of the extra service required. (2) I put in a lower bid to supply pianos for the college, but the PC teaacher held sway and forced through the croppy pianos. My lower bid was for Samicks. My exper ience with this product over the last five years has been uniformly excellent. I read on this forum lukewarm comments about Samicks and I wonder what some people are seeing that I am not. Believe me, I can and do sell many other makes, but I know of no other make that offers such good value for the money. And I will be happy to discuss the merits of vacuum-forged plates, surface-tension soundboards, and delignite pinblocks -- even with such world-reknowned authorities as the highly respected Larry Fine1 OK, everybody with 2 cents worth of comment, chime in! Jim DeRocher,MMPTA, RPT, PhD,PSO aka TunerJim
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