Chinese Pianos

[Delwin D Fandrich]

While I agree with some of Joe's sentiment I see no reason to punish the Chinese
people for our own government's greed and shortsightedness. And, no, I don't see
it as all George W's fault; so-called leaders from both parties have gotten us
into this mess and I don't see either of them trying real hard to get us out.

Del 

| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org 
| [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Conrad Hoffsommer
| Sent: September 29, 2005 6:23 AM
| To: Pianotech
| Subject: RE: Chinese Pianos
| 
| 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
| >
| >----------
| >
| >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.
| 
| 
| _______________________________________________
| pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
|