---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 10/31/01 8:00:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, grandrestorations@yahoo.com writes: > ...they built really crappy pianos for so many > years and got such a reputation for building junk > that during their last few years, when they were > really trying to build a nice piano, it was too > late, that the public wouldn't buy them > anymore... > > That's the story I was given, but then again it was given to me by a piano > Actually, the last few years Kimball shipped pianos they weren't even built by Kimball. They were built on contract by - talk about irony - Baldwin. Kimball sold all their piano building equipment along with the Conn and Krakauer brand names to a Chinese piano company named Artfield piano, and converted the piano factories in Indiana to other uses 2 or 3 years before they stopped selling pianos. And as for the salesman - there's an old joke in the business: What's the difference between a used car salesman and a piano salesman? The used car salesman *knows* when he's lying. ;-) Larry Fletcher Atlanta Chapter ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/9e/cc/e5/5b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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