<BODY>Yeah and the pianos would be trashed in 5 years and hard for the leasing company to resell...might need to drop that lease period to 2 or 3 years...I suppose this is similar to what Yamaha is doing with the school program but the pianos don't cost the schools anything?  I'm sure schools do a lot of leasing of office equipment etc...straight ahead write off... I think the U of Alabama should be looking into this... David I.     ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: <<A href="mailto:ANRPiano@aol.com">ANRPiano@aol.com</A>> To: <<A href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A>> Received: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:49:19 EDT Subject: Re: you can pay me now.... In a message dated 7/1/2002 6:38:57 PM Central Daylight Time, ilvey@sbcglobal.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">It might be more cost effective for the schools to just lease pianos and hire outside technicians to tune & voice them.  Then whe In the short term this might be cheaper, however when their supplier descides they no longer want to lease the pianos, as is happening more and more, they will find themselves in a heap of trouble. Andrew Remillard Nothern Illinois University </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY>>In a message dated 7/1/2002 6:38:57 PM Central Daylight Time, ilvey@sbcglobal.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">It might be more cost effective for the schools to just lease pianos and hire outside technicians to tune & voice them.  Then whe In the short term this might be cheaper, however when their supplier descides they no longer want to lease the pianos, as is happening more and more, they will find themselves in a heap of trouble. Andrew Remillard Nothern Illinois University</HTML>