This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello Glenn We seem to be straying far from the subject of pre-cut string to the = subject of price-cut shops! Here in the old country we have super = stores, ASDA (our version of KeyMart) Safeway, Tesco, Arndale and other = shopping centres all striving to put the little guy out of business. And = succeeding.... Gad - now the post office is on strike! Anyone would be = forgiven for thinking there was an alternative means of communication = wouldn't they? ;-) There are, of course, other shops than Shalom = Harrods, Smiths, Marks & Spencer etc. some very nice little shops indeed = which the major stores can't even hope to emulate in their marketting. I = know you can get pianos at Harrods - ideed they have a piano sale every = year - but with the demise of all piano manufacturers now in this = benighted country we have to fall back on the "used piano" approach and = "buy-in" mammoth quantities of used Yamahas. Why do the Japanese have = such a high turn-over of pianos? They seem to keep the new piano maybe = three years and then trade it in for a new one. Great Britain gets the = used ones. Is there any truth in the saying that Yamahas lose their = tonal quality over a short period? If so this could be a reason...:-0 Regards Michael G (UK) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Crashvalve@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:19 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Baldwin pre-cut string In a message dated 11/3/03 4:43:42 PM, michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk = writes: You know Glenn, you're the lucky ones over the other side of the pond = - we don't have any piano factories at all now in the old country. Even = Herrberger-Brooks have gone... End of an era. :-( Regards Michael G (UK) Aeolian was better off dead many say. In America it seems to be moving = to a kind of micro-brewery approach with many small but exceeding fine = shops. Is this true in Britian as well ? Glenn C. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/cc/c3/90/58/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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