Chinese Pianos

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Dave,

I think that he's only restraining his OWN trade, based on his experience 
with the genre and his own economic philosophy.  He is postulating a 
scenario, like a question in economics class, but not telling us we have to 
follow the suggestion.  Had he said, "every technician SHOULD..." or "I'd 
like every technician to...", then he might be promoting some restraint.

There are some technicians who "limit their practice" to a certain make. 
That would be the restraint of who's trade?

conrad
-who limits his work to acoustic instruments
(i.e. no "toasters")



At 07:46 AM 9/29/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm no lawyer but promoting a boycott of this nature sounds to this layman 
>like restraint of trade.  I hope that wasn't a board member who made the 
>suggestion!
>
>David M. Porritt
><mailto:dporritt@smu.edu>dporritt@smu.edu
>
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>
>All,
>I doubt that this will do one whit of good, but I've gotta say it anyway. 
>I completely REFUSE to work on Chinese Pianos. The Chinese are inundating 
>our society with all sorts of "cheap" products. The Corporate types are 
>buying into it. Hence, OUR work force is hard pressed to compete on any 
>level. For those clients that own Chinese Pianos, I simply refer them 
>elsewhere. I know that a large majority of technicians refuse to work on 
>Square Grands, why not the Chinese pianos? I consider a Square Grand ten 
>times easier to cope with than the Chinese POS's. I refuse to be a party 
>to undermining my own economy. If every technician would do the same, a 
>lot of those Chinese PSO's (actually it's a compliment to call them such, 
>IMO.), would wind up in the land fill, where they belong....or, better 
>yet, send them back to China and let their people contend with them.
>End of Rant. Thanks for letting me.<G>
>Regards,
>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.