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<div><br>About the Samick piano and our new young friend. <br>My first contact with Samick goes back to 1986 when 2 RPT friends of mine with a combined 80+ years of experience, who had been dealers of Baldwin pianos, were dropped as Baldwin dealers after Baldwin emerged from Chapter 11 proceedings and went to the NAMM show looking for another piano line. They chose Samick for many reasons which I won't list here (do your own research!). <br>
I believe that the fact that Samick was successful enough to not only stay solvent but be able to offer to buy out Young Chang when they hit financial hardship says a lot about them. They offered a LIFETIME warranty on pinblock, soundboard and plate for the first 15 years they were available in this area. As problems arose and were reported to the tech department, the new pianos came through with those things changed!! A true wonder in the industry. <br>
Do they compete with the top european brands? No, but I wouldn't put their studio or console pianos aside for a Yamaha or Kawai. <br> <br>We have a "dealer" that operates in this area as a "truck operation" he has no fixed store but instead runs classified ads selling "repossessed" pianos at lower prices than brick and mortar stores. He sells Samicks because he can take them out of the box and sell them as is, they rarely need more than a tuning or 2, for his purposes. He is from 150 miles away and comes to this area to sell when he gets enough calls, as far as I can ascertain he does nothing to the pianos, not even tuning. I see that the regulation may be off just a bit or some keys may stick, the sort of thing a floor tech would catch. My point is he has a piano ready to go out of the box, consoles of course, due to a company that turns out a consitantly quality instrument. </div>
<div>I am not endorsing or approving of this practice in any way but using it as an example of a production piano that is consistant enough in quality to be sold in this fashion.<br>I do not recommend him or work for him, his customers/victims call me for tunings.<br>
<br>Alicia, I will address this to you and any others who wish to learn from it. As a child I watched a Disney series on TV about Davy Crockett, I even had a coonskin cap and a flintlock looking capgun! As a kid in Arizona that coonskin cap took real fortitude to wear! <grin> </div>
<div>Davy had a slogan that I thought was the greatest thing I'd ever heard, "Make sure you're right, then go ahead!" The older I've gotten the more I've realized how dumb that is! I can't remember the last time I was SURE I was right about anything! At least not since I reached the milestone of 25 or so!<g></div>
<div>One of the first things I learned was never say never, always leave yourself some wiggle room in any statement you make. My statements are filled with, almost nevers, hardly evers, rarelys and in my limited experience but I never say never! Making any statement an absolute begs to have you proven wrong and you will be, mark my words.<br>
<br>Welcome to the list and to PTG,<br>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. <br>Vince Lombardi<br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>
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