Re: Inadvertent pitch raise with SAT IIIMark, People are buying what sales people are selling them. Manufacturers are making what they want and as they believe that price sells pianos, they are price consious in what they make. Many dealers want and importers (who are generally marketing type people) whant something that will be better than the oppositions product at, if possible, the same price. We, as technicians have very little influence on the market place. If you had the right sounding piano with the correct playing action in the nice looking cabinet at a comparable price and also offered sales personel a special kickback then you would sell these pianos more than the oppositions. But only on the kickback. Most people buying pianos don't realy know what they want or need, the rely on the sales person to advise them. Now the sales person wants to sell what he knows the customer will buy so I guess that the first piano comes down to price. The second piano. That is a different story. Tony Caught ICPTG Australia caute@optusnet.com.au "Todays piano manufacturers have, well simply lost perspective... they continually explore the possibilities for making instruments more and more explosive in sound" If the above is true, it's only because that's what the folks buying pianos want. Manufacturers respond to market conditions and it's up to us as musicians and technicians to change the market if we think it needs changing.
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