Sorry, wrong! There are any number of individuals and small companies providing specialty tools and parts whose contributions are developing, searching out, stocking and offering for distribution items that would not otherwise be available from the main suppliers. Many of these individuals don’t have nearly the volume as a Yamaha, Schaff or Renner to be able to run “big ads” in the journal or “all star” presentations (lunch included) nevertheless they provide a valuable service to those techs who are constantly looking for new ideas, tools, parts and ways to do things better (and, btw, Pianoforte does run ads in the journal). Don’t be naïve, the investment that Renner, Schaff and Yamaha make are vehicles to promote their products and they are fortunate (as are we who benefit) to have the capital for larger scale promotions. The bottom line is still the same—they need to make money. Smaller companies like Pianoforte are entitled to make a living for the service they provide as well even if their promotions can’t match those of the big boys. Do you think, btw, that the techs who contribute to this list don’t sometimes engage in self promotion? Does that diminish their technical contributions? Last name would be good, btw David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of pianotek2000 at aol.com Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:00 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] wurzen front punching felt My comment could have been better worded. The intent was to point out that Jurgen's outfit contributes nothing to the industry, not that he personally is a nothing. I don't know him. There are people in our industry who genuinely give and those that only take. I've never seen pianoforte company run an ad, sponsor a major class or support the industry. They only try to skim off the efforts of others. Look at the January PTG Journal just delivered. Companies like Yamaha, Schaff, Renner, etc. , all run the big ads in our Journal that support us and help make the PTG possible. Schaff told me that most of their business comes from non PTG members. I'm sure the same is true with Renner, so why do they do that. Renner told me they do it because they believe the PTG represents the best opportuntity to continue raise the level of professionalisim in this trade. I'm only suggesting that Jurgen starts supporting us the way the other companies do and not just use the LIst in lieu of advertising. As far as responding to a question about his products, Mike, that's one of the oldes setups on the List. Jurgen's not the first one to try it. I'm only pointing out the obvious. We're in a shrinking business, and I'm grateful for the companies that continue to invest and grow our business and less tolerant of the companies like Pianoforte who only take. John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081230/37528a32/attachment-0001.html>
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