<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><br> <br> <div><br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_447e5a16-8055-47a5-8a17-1d60f084b3f9"> <div class="WordSection1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"> Question; If the factory rebuild carries the same quality and </font><font face="arial, helvetica">warranty</font><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"> as new, why should anyone ever buy a new piano? (<font color="#0000cd">They aren't. In this economy, there buying used and rebuilt.)</font>Aren't they kind of shooting themselves in the foot here?----Greg</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "><br> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"> Yes, they shoots themselves and certainly without our help</font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2">  Dennis E., Ron N and I looked at an A-2 in Rochester 2005 that had been </font><font face="arial, helvetica">just</font><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"> restored in the Stwy Restoration center and was on display there. We ran a crown string across the bottom and no residual crown. We discovered it had a freshly oil canned Genuine Steinway built soundboard and it sounded very unmusical. It had all genuine Steinway parts. Enough said.</font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2">  I guess I'm ticked because the marketing is personally insulting to me and many, many of you. </font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2">  </font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2">Just imagine the good will they could engender by spinning it differently, by saying there are quite a few small shops around the country doing a very admirable job of rebuilding our pianos ( and Large. ie. Ac pianocraft, Faust Harrison, Pianocraft (Keith Kerman) in Maryland). How about encouraging techs to use their parts instead of being so pedantic, heavy handed and isolationist.</font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"> </font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"> Look at race cars. All the american autos;... Ford,GM, Chrysler are raced highly modified and covered with endorsement logos.  I have never ever heard one of those manufacturers say if it doesn't have 5 thousand Ford parts it not a Ford. </font></font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 205); ">Heck they're happy for the exposure. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 205); ">   So the truth is, that if someone buys a product from anyone, it belongs to them.....and if they wish to rebuild, modify,codify, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 205); ">or hot</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 205); "> rod it to higher</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 205); "> levels of performance, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 205); ">doesn't that speak well of the basic version, the basic platform, that it has </span><u style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 205); ">that </u><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; color: rgb(0, 0, 205); ">kind of potential. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd" face="arial, helvetica" size="2">I'm just saying</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000cd"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><br> </font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2" color="#0000cd">Dale</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "><br> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "><a name="_MailEndCompose"> </a></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> <a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org?">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Spalding<br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:41 PM<br> <b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] who pays?</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "> </div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "> <div class="MsoNormal">On 10/18/2012 3:44 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:</div> </div> <blockquote style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> </span></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> FWIW. This is just another reason I try <u>not </u>to the use original </span><span style="font-family:">gen-u-whine Steinway parts unless requested. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"></span></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> </span></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"><br> </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:">Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S. pianos<br> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com">www.Erwinspiano.com</a></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"><br> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:">Phone: 209-577-8397</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"><br>   </span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; ">Lot's of us try not to, Steinway knows why, and they're fighting back dirty.  Take a look:<br> <br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usedsteinwaypiano.com/">http://www.usedsteinwaypiano.com/</a></div> </div> </div>  </div> </font>