[CAUT] Rockley Family Foundation

[Ron Poire]

You are so right.
In a program like this, you would be doing lots of tuning, all for no long-term results.    It feels good while the program is going on, but the university would be beholden to the dealer, and subject to the whim of when the dealer wanted to turn over the inventory.

RP


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul T Williams 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:25 AM
  Subject: [CAUT] Rockley Family Foundation



  Dear List, 

  Has anyone ever heard of or worked with the Rockley Family Foundation?  I got a phone call in a semi-"cold call" style (he knew my name from some list) asking if we at UNL would be interested in a loan program of pianos to be replenished every year.  I asked him to send me some information and he e-mailed me this morning. 

  In Seattle, several smaller colleges have done this sort of thing with a couple of the piano stores in the area.  They would loan various pianos to them for a year at no charge and then sell them a year later.  The problem I saw in this was that the stores would bring in many of their new pianos at that time, having a "SUNDAY,SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!" sale and only the school pianos were sold at much of a discount.  Lots of advertisement on every media possible would be invested and lots of people would show up, making it basically a warehouse sale. I'm a bit leary of this and having been a store tech for many years, didn't like the store's tactics in their selling styles.  Bit my lip many times from some of the crap the "used car salesmen" type folks would say to potential victims,  ahhh, customers I should say.  On a university end of it now, I would be faced with breaking in many new pianos every year and just when I get them semi-stable, I'd have to start over. 

  Any advise or testimony y'all can bring to this subject is welcome! 

  Best, 

  Paul T. Williams RPT 
  Piano Technician 
  School of Music 
  University of Nebraska 
  Lincoln, NE 
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