piano supply houses

[Barrie Heaton]

In message <00b101c18497$9bd8f660$e7f2a118@tampabay.rr.com>, Farrell
<mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> writes
>I believe I am right on the following: International Piano Supply is some
>dude out west that orders supplies from Schaff/Pianotek/etc., adds his
>100% markup, and sells to the public. That's it. If you are a technician,
>you would be better off buying direct from Schaff/Pianotek/etc. If you
>are not a technician, and the supply houses will not sell to you, you
>can go to International Piano Supply and pay twice what techs pay
>from the real supply houses.


None of the UK supply houses will sell direct to the great unwashed but
they will direct them to a music shop / piano tuner.  We then put 150%
on top :-)   What is interesting is Renner UK and possibly Renner
Germany don't sell to the great unwashed; however, I see Renner USA
sells direct from the website.

Barrie,



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