[pianotech] Yammy GH1

[William Monroe]

Sure, there's truth in that, but I think it applies reasonably equally to
any other manufacturer in existence.  Yamaha hardly has exclusivity here.

William R. Monroe



On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:10 PM, pgmilkie at juno.com <pgmilkie at juno.com>wrote:

>
> Not much that Yamaha does can be called arbitrary, nearly as I
> can tell. They have multiple decimal place reasons for
> anything they do. building lousy student designs by the tens
> of thousands wouldn't be a very good fit to the rest of their
> marketing practices. The only thing I have come up with that
> makes any sense at all (to me, at least) is this: It was
> pointed out to me many years ago that you can't sell one of
> anything. If you have two, a buyer will have the illusion of
> choice, and you'll sell one of them. Having a nasty cheap item
> to contrast with a much nicer expensive item means you'll sell
> more of the expensive items than if you didn't have the, nasty
> one beside it for contrast. Even when the customer fails by
> buying the nasty item, Yamaha wins because they made a sale,
> and the customer who bought the nasty item wouldn't have
> bought the expensive one in any case. So by having a few of
> those little horrors in the floor, they sell more of the
> better instruments, and they also sell a bunch of the nasties
> as well. If the nasties were better sounding instruments,
> they'd sell more of the cheap nasties and fewer of the better
> instruments, for a net revenue loss. You can bet they have
> percentage figures somewhere in the corporate file cabinets.
> Ron N
>
>
> Jackpot, Bulls eye, Bingo,  yes,yes,yes,
>
> You pass go and get $200 Ron. This is what is happening.
>
> Smoke and mirrors to get you to buy and they win whatever you buy.
>
>
>
> Milkie,P
>
>
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