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<DIV><FONT size=4>Hey Bill,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>They wouldn't listen to him when he worked there, why should they =
now? I do
agree that they need to get it together, tho. :-(</DIV>
<DIV>Regards, </DIV>
<DIV>Joe Garrett</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"
title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 25, 2001 =
11:08
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Baldwin's Troubles =
Deep</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a =
message dated
4/25/01 12:51:39 PM Central Daylight Time, <A
href="mailto:rrg@nevada.edu">rrg@nevada.edu</A> <BR>(Robert Goodale) =
writes:
<BR><BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">Here is a headline article from the April issue of the =
<U>Music
Trades</U>. It <BR>sounds pretty grim. </FONT><FONT =
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>Wow, Rob.
Thanks for posting this. All I really had was a gut =
feeling.
<BR>It's just that those model B and C were so consistently =
problematic
and <BR>obviously so cheaply and sloppily built. When there are =
still so
many <BR>choices of relatively good, solid pianos available, who would =
buy a
Baldwin? <BR><BR>A local person here said recently, "When Liberace =
died, so
did the interest <BR>in Baldwin pianos". <BR><BR>I sure do hope that =
someone
does do the right things and make the right <BR>choices to save the =
company.
There is a market for good quality pianos, <BR>expensive pianos. =
There is no market for cheap, new junk. <BR><BR>HEY BALDWIN!!!
LISTEN TO DEL, HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT!!! <BR><BR>Bill =
Bremmer
RPT <BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>