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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Really? A sunshine =
vertical. Only plays
during daylight hours, I assume.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carl Meyer<BR>PTG assoc</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=draine@comcast.net href="mailto:draine@comcast.net">J =
Patrick
Draine</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 08, =
2005 1:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: That's Business! =
Was
Baldwin, Yamaha, etc.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On Jan 8, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Alan wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><?fontfamily><?param Arial>Maybe Wal-Mart will buy the =
Baldwin
name and have Pearl River build pianos to sell
<BR><?/fontfamily></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Page 32 of the January issue of the =
Piano
Technicians Journal has a press release regarding "a joint venture =
with [the]
Chinese government and manufacturing partners to form Baldwin =
Zhongshan
China."<BR><BR>A web search came up with this more brief =
snippet:<BR><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?bigger><?bigger>New =
Baldwins
from China debut at Shanghai =
Expo<BR><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/fontfamily></B><?fontfamily><?param =
Arial><?bigger><?bigger>Press
Release<BR><BR><?/bigger><?/bigger><?x-tad-bigger>The newest member of =
the
Baldwin family, Baldwin Piano and Musical Instruments Co., Ltd., based =
in
Zhongshan, China, made its exhibition debut at the Music China Expo =
(Oct.
20-23). The trade show was held at Shanghai New International Expo =
Center,
where guests had the opportunity to get up close and personal with =
some of the
finest pianos in the world. Among the pianos displayed at the Baldwin
Zhongshan booth were the Baldwin nine-foot SD10 concert grand, =
Wurlitzer
grands, and Hamilton, J.C. Fischer and Sunshine vertical pianos, as =
well as a
Baldwin E225 grand piano with the ConcertMaster player system. Also =
displayed
were Gibson, Kramer and Epiphone guitars. <BR><BR>“We are very =
pleased with
the immediate success of our newest acquisition in Zhongshan, =
China,” said
Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., (parent =
company of
Baldwin Piano Inc.), “And we are very excited at being able to offer =
members
of the musical instrument industry in China the opportunity to =
experience the
extraordinary quality of all of our =
instruments.”<BR><BR><?/x-tad-bigger><?/fontfamily>Patrick
Draine<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>