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[Ron Nossaman]

>You've got to remember that the piano market is very tradition driven.

Yes, I'm quite aware of that, and not likely o forget.


>Pianos are sold by salesman that typically know very little about pianos,
>but they know sales features, to a public that knows even less about pianos.
>And they consider it a huge feature that their brand of piano is being made
>by time tested methods using time tested materials. When I sold pianos I've
>been known to use the line, "I can show you pianos 150 years old made with
>wooden action parts. I can't say the same for plastic. Most anytime plastic
>has been tried in piano actions it has met with disastrous long term
>results." Those were all true statements designed to get the prospect to buy
>my piano, not the one down the street. And they worked.
>
>Dean

Of course they worked. Playing to ignorance, short-sightedness, and 
prejudice has always worked better than appealing to logic, rationality, 
and reason.

Ron N