On 1997-03-16pianotech said to arnold1@mindspring.com >Dear list, >The Belarus is a piano made in the province of Belarus in Russia. >It comes in 43" and 44",and 46" sizes. It has the sole distinction >of being , I believe, the cheapest ($1,950.00 to $2,110.00) new >piano you can buy in this country. They have been imported for a >couple of years now. The piano, once I got it up to pitch did not >tune badly and it didn"t sound too bad. >Hope this clears this up. It certainly is not a stencil brand. >James Grebe from St. Louis >pianoman@inlink.com Isn't this what the so-called Sangler and Son, or whatever it was called, really was? It was written somewhere in that piano that they had assembled it in Belgium, or the Netherlands, I think, because, at the time, there was an embargo against importing products from the former Soviet Union. As with a lot of cheaper products, the consumer would have been much better off to spend their money for a few-year-old, quality used instrument, but, well, these things were "new", and the consumer thought they were getting a "really good deal." Let us say that, in my opinion, the 46-inch version was the "least worst." Arnold Schmidt, Raleigh, NC, arnold1@mindspring.com `[1;33;42mNet-Tamer V 1.05.1 - Test Drive
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