I've had dealers tell customers that "our pianos do not need tuning, they are so good!" Then I get a call asking what's wrong with my piano, it sounds horrible! From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Gregor _ Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 12:59 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Over prepping sales pitch WAS: prepping before sale Marcel, are you joking? For the unlikely case that this is not supposed to be a joke: does the dealer just tell them or does he really remove the strings for stretching? I mean, how stupid is this? Actually, string stretching is an issue in new pianos. But usually strings are stretched in the piano, not outside. A friend of mine sells Wendl & Lung, Kawai and Seiler. He says that the Seilers have a string stretching problem as they are not propperly stretched compared to WL or Kawai. He stretches the strings of all the Seilers he sells. Gregor ------------------------------------------ piano technician - tuner - dealer Münster, Germany www.weldert.de _____ From: mcpianos at hotmail.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:05:15 -0500 Subject: [pianotech] Over prepping sales pitch WAS: prepping before sale On the other hand, there is a dealer here in town that tells his customers that before delivering the piano he removes all the strings to stretch them so their new piano won't need tuning until 2 years. They are the ones I find 1/2 step flat after a year... Go figure Marcel _____ Windows Live : vos amis voient plus facilement ce que vous faites sur Facebook. <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9691821> _____ Windows 7 - jetzt <http://redirect.gimas.net/?n=M0911MSWin7> entdecken! _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091129-0, 11/29/2009 Tested on: 11/29/2009 1:09:50 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091129/94258d03/attachment-0001.htm>
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