[pianotech] Over prepping sales pitch WAS: prepping before sale

[David Ilvedson]

Think about it...would the dealer being doing anymore work than he needed to?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Gregor _" <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 11/29/2009 9:58:58 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Over prepping sales pitch WAS: prepping before sale



>Marcel,

>are you joking? For the unlikely case that this is not supposed to be a joke: does the 
>dealer just tell them or does he really remove the strings for stretching? I mean, how 
>stupid is this? Actually, string stretching is an issue in new pianos. But usually strings 
>are stretched in the piano, not outside. A friend of mine sells Wendl & Lung, Kawai 
>and Seiler. He says that the Seilers have a string stretching problem as they are not 
>propperly stretched compared to WL or Kawai. He stretches the strings of all the 
>Seilers he sells.

>Gregor

>------------------------------------------
>piano technician - tuner - dealer
>Münster, Germany
>www.weldert.de




>From: mcpianos at hotmail.com
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:05:15 -0500
>Subject: [pianotech] Over prepping sales pitch  WAS: prepping before sale








>On the other hand, there is a dealer here in town that tells his customers that 
>before delivering the piano he removes all the strings to stretch them so their new 
>piano won't need tuning until 2 years.

>They are the ones I find 1/2 step flat after a year...

>Go figure

> 

>Marcel

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