We have an old Sojin brochure which states Sojin was a division of Daewoo. They are out of business now. Sy Zabrocki ----- Original Message ----- From: David Ilvedson <ilvey@jps.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 12:42 AM Subject: RE: Sherman Clay > Could be Daiwoo (spelling). I dont' know who the heck that is but they did > make Sherman, Clay pianos in that time frame. > > David I. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf > Of Sy Zabrocki > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 9:15 PM > To: Pianotech > Subject: Sherman Clay > > > We have a question for west coast tuners. At about 1984 who was producing > pianos for Sherman Clay? Was it Samick or Sojin, or both at different times? > > (Back then Sherman Clay was a west coast dealer with about 23 pianos stores, > down to about 11 lately I've heard). > > We've found a Sherman Clay 5'2" grand that was purchased in San Francisco in > 1984 and the buyer was not told it was an Asian piano. Now there is a new > owner who would like to know the maker. > > I'm not that familiar with Samick or Sojin features that far back. This > piano has a mysterious serian number. There is no number on the plate in the > usual area. There is a number of 8,104,744 stamped on the edge of the keybed > back where the lyre mounts. This same 8 million number is visible on the key > frame with the keyslip removed. Even Yamaha has only a 5 million number. > > Embossed in the plate are the numbers 6311 which must be the model number. > It is not an exciting piano but we are curious about the maker. > > We thought west coast tuners would be more familiar with Sherman Clay. > Thanks. > > Sy Zabrocki > > > >
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