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<div>One thing I'll add is that we did it primarily for the piano major practice rooms. Most of our other practice instruments were fairly old and not in that good a shape. One unique thing we have now is that the dealer sends a tuner(s) out to tune every 3 months, I believe, and every month to check them over to fix any problems that have come up. This past year was the first for this particular situation and I haven't heard how it all worked out yet. I don't know how much work my replacement actually had to do on them. I've asked (this morning) but haven't heard anything back yet. </div>
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<div>Avery Todd, RPT</div>
<div>University of Houston, Ret. <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Paul T Williams <<a href="mailto:pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu">pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Thanks Jeannie, and all.</font> <br><br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">I think I'll stay out of this one. That's all I need to do is free prep work for a store. Or should I say, free store work at taxpayer's expense!!</font> <br>
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<td><p></p></td></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br><br><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">Hi Paul,</font> <br><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">Those sorts of deals are still going on here in the Seattle area. A small music school in my area had a similar arrangement with the local Yamaha dealer only to find that when the sales weren't reaching the expectations of the dealer, all the pianos were pulled from the school two days later, leaving them with none. Many institutions have become dependent on this type of situation and wouldn't be able to function without the "loaned" pianos so it is easy to see what the incentive is. Too bad purchase and maintenance of musical instruments is no longer in the budgets of some music schools. </font> <br>
<font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2"> </font> <br><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="2">jeannie</font> <br></blockquote></div>