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[Scott E. Thile]

Hi Mary,

As Fred mentions, the programs vary and are negotiable.

We had a loan program here at MSU with Yamaha for several years that worked 
out pretty well.   We never had any out of pocket expenses on our 
arrangement with the Yamaha dealer.  I work for a different school that had 
a deal with Baldwin pianos for a while where they paid for the moving 
expenses as well as part of the financing charges. The major drawback for 
me on these deals was always the sale.  In our case (and most I am aware 
of) the dealer brought in a lot of low end stuff to sell along with the 
pianos on loan to us.  Some buyers were more or less allowed to believe 
that ALL the pianos offered at the sale were from university inventory, or 
part of the loan program. I felt like this made us look kind of bad, but no 
one else seemed to mind it much.  Our upper administration finally killed 
our deal for reasons known only to them.

There is a fair amount of information on this subject in an old CAUT 
Newsletter from 1997 of which I was the editor, and it is available on-line 
on the CAUT pages.

Here is a link direct to the '97 issue:
http://www.mursuky.edu/caut.php/newsletter/2_97/newsindex.htm

Link to the Newsletter area:
http://www.mursuky.edu/caut.php/newsindex.htm

CAUT Main page:
http://www.mursuky.edu/caut.php/homepage.htm

Hope you find what you need Mary,

Scott
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At 01:39 PM 10/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
>To:  University technicians
>      Re: University program under which a dealer loans a University pianos
>for a year culminating with a sale of the instruments on campus.
>
>     My questions are:    Are there any usage fees or moving costs charged to
>the University by the Dealer?   Which manufacturer has the best program?
>Thanks for your responses.
>
>Mary Schwendeman