[CAUT] RE : huge pitch raise question

[Jeff Tanner]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:50 AM, Paul T Williams wrote:

>  It suprised me, too, that with as much profit these stores make  
> off the pianos, they still refuse to have any of them properly  
> prepped.  "just tune it and ship it!", was their motto.

Even more holds true for the Steinway dealer who isn't doing it  
either.  That's the result of the Yamafication and Kawaization of the  
piano sales industry, because I've always heard that up until the  
Asian myths came along, every dealer had techs prepping pianos.  The  
Chinese pianos I dealt with recently weren't even tuned.  I was told  
they were supposed to have been but they couldn't possibly have  
been.  And they were headed for public school music classrooms which  
used them for 7 weeks in that condition before I was called to go  
tune them.


>  Even more suprising was the frequency of customers requesting the  
> piano be unboxed at their homes! (making sure they are not getting  
> the "used" floor model, I guess).

Somebody isn't doing their job of educating the customer there.  Why  
else would university loan program sales work?


Jeff Tanner, RPT
University of South Carolina



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070110/ea937ec8/attachment.html