[CAUT] All $teinway?

[Elwood Doss]

Hi Ed,
Where's the location of the piano and how much did the dealer offer her?
Please reply offline at edoss at utm.edu.
Joy!
Elwood

Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT
Piano Technician/Technical Director
Department of Music
145 Fine Arts Building
The University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, TN  38238
731/881-1852
FAX: 731/881-7415
HOME: 731/587-5700

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Subject: [CAUT] All $teinway?

Greetings, 
    I just had a customer call, wanting to sell her 7 year old Steinway 
upright.  She had already spoken to the local Steinway dealer, who
offered to 
take in on consignment for 50% of the selling price. 
    I suggested that she call one of our "All Steinway" schools to see
if 
they were interested, and she responded that she had already done that
and 
was told that the school had signed a contract that stipulated that they

couldn't purchase pianos from anyone but the dealer.  
    Is this normal?  Seems that a school would be crazy to  both forego
the 
ability to acquire instruments from other sources and completely lose
their 
bargaining power!  Anybody heard of this clause in the "All Steinway" 
designation? 
Regards, 
  
Ed Foote RPT 
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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