Kimball Whitney

[Ron Nossaman]

>Sometimes customer don't have time to look for something else. Yes, there 
>are bargains out there. But they are hard to find. When a parent is ready 
>to buy an instrument so that their child can take lessons, they have to 
>act immediately. Otherwise the child will loose interest. The child 
>doesn't understand why Mommy and Daddy can't afford $1000 for a piano. 
>They just know they want a piano. And if all they have is $500, then they 
>should buy a piano like that. Even if it is a Whitney. And as I said, for 
>the price, they are not bad. It all depends how well it was maintained, 
>and how good the tuner is to keep it in good playing condition.
>
>Wim


Then there's never any point to asking about the quality of the piano, is 
there? If they have $500 to spend, or $14.95, then they just buy anything 
they can find in that price range and get on with it. It was my impression 
that the whole point of asking was to avoid making an ignorant mistake and 
wasting what little money they had on something utterly useless to them. 
Sure, the Whitney will probably do what they need, if it doesn't need that 
semitone pitch raise, regulation, and grommet replacement that will likely 
more than double the original purchase price that they could barely afford 
when they were shopping. And if the piano does need all that work the 
parents don't have the money for, who's going to feel sorry for them and 
volunteer the time to make it less bad because they didn't take the time to 
try and learn what they were buying in the first place? Not me. I eat too 
many things I couldn't find enough information on to protect myself, to 
feel sorry for someone who didn't try.

Ron N