[pianotech] green piano with bass bridge problem

[Scott Gray]

Does it say PSO on the side of there trucks?

(or POS).. heehee

At least it will be Lots of Work for the tuner/techs in that area!..  
Look at the bright side.
(ok.. it's not to bright);-)

Scott Gray
RSG Piano Service <http://www.sunlitedreams.com/Piano/index.html>
BF2


On 11/11/2010 2:06 PM, Terry Farrell wrote:
> Don't laugh. You should see what they do at the local university piano 
> sale each year.  A local dealer makes an agreement with the university 
> - my understanding is that they give a percent of the sales to the 
> school for letting them use the floor space. Then this local dealer 
> (they sell pianos built in NY) trucks over all the pianos they've had 
> trouble selling, AND oodles of other dealers (that sell this same 
> brand of piano made in NY) all around the country (or at least the 
> southeast, midwest and northeast) ship their 
> been-sittin'-on-the-showroom-floor-too-many-years pie-anners down to 
> the local university. Well, I shouldn't say they "ship" them exactly - 
> that sounds too professional - actually they load them onto semi 
> trailers and truck them down to Tampa - and so as not to be late for 
> the show, they get here a week early where they sit in the trailer for 
> the better part of a week. Oh, and did I mention that this annual sale 
> is conducted in July? In Tampa, Florida? 95-degree, sunny most of the 
> day with thunderstorms and tons of rain in the late afternoon Tampa? 
> Sitting in the trailer in the HOT Florida sun in July high-humidity 
> Tampa?
>
> What are these jokers thinking?
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Tom Driscoll wrote:
>
>>     *Subject:*Re: [pianotech] green piano with bass bridge problem
>>
>>     When I was at WITCC, ('77/'78) there was a truckload sale of
>>     "Grand" pianos at a local hotel.
>>     I think the "grand" moniker came from the price tag...
>>
>>     Conrad Hoffsommer
>>
>>     Conrad,
>>       I saw the same sales model in Florida in the 1970's. They would
>>     show up in small towns at the local shopping center with a
>>     tractor trailer full of these things ,a big tent ,some smaller
>>     delivery trucks and advertise on the local radio station.
>>     A  third party financing company approved credit on the spot and
>>     later that day you had a brand new piano with a moth proofed
>>     action , a genuine luan mahogany sounding panel and real copper
>>     bass strings for around $900.00.
>>       Here in Massachusetts I see a few each year that surprisingly
>>     have yet to fall apart. Typically however  the back assembly
>>     fails with the top of the posts warping along with glue joint
>>     failures galore and
>>     the legs tend to fall off if you stare at them for more than a
>>     few minutes.
>>     If I remember the parent company was Marantz or Kincaid. These
>>     things made the worst of the Aeolian's look good!
>>     Tom D.
>>
>
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