The local Fry's electronic store has a Steinway, nine footer, poorly tuned, but played.......... les bartlett ChicagoTuner at aol.com wrote: > Yes, this has been going on for a while. I've tuned pianos headed for > Costcos and once on location, near the door. And once there was a > sales rep who had been flown in from Arizona for the customers. I > don't know how many units actually have been sold from these places. I > always thought normal dealer service as with any other sale would > apply but, I try to ask this week to make sure. I have only seen lower > end pianos in these places. > Michael Gutowski > Chicago > > In a message dated 6/13/2009 8:16:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > mkurta1 at comcast.net writes: > > Wandering through our local Cosco's "aisles of beauty" this > morning I was attracted to live piano music coming from the middle > of the store. It was eminating from a new Yamaha baby grand > (couldn't see the model) with a Disklavier doing the playing. > Price was $16,999. What was surprising was the assortment of 6 > other various Yamahas. Another baby grand w/o player and several > studios and consoles were displayed. They attracted a lot of > attention, but I don't know how many actually were sold. No sales > person was in evidence. Looks like warehouse clubs are into the > piano business big time, at least ours is...... > Mike Kurta, RPT > Chicago chapter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! > <http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377049x1201454365/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=JunestepsfooterNO62>* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090613/ed320725/attachment-0001.htm>
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