[CAUT] loaner programs

[Paul Milesi, RPT]

Our contract began last April with the then-Steinway dealership here, only
to have them lose Steinway and replace it with Yamaha in late summer.  So,
our Bostons were replaced with Yamahas in January.  A sale was promoted, but
didn¹t take place on our campus, and those pianos couldn¹t actually be
promoted in a sale in this area, because of legal issues.  I¹m not sure
they¹ll be able to adequately assess whether the sale was ³successful² as a
basis for continuing or terminating at the end of the school year.  No word
yet.  Needless to say, I am prepping pianos of our own to put in place.
I¹ve been here a year now, and we might just be able to make it with our own
inventory.
-- 
Paul Milesi, RPT
Staff Piano Technician
Howard University Department of Music
Washington, DC



From: Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com>
Reply-To: <caut at ptg.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:45:58 -0600
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Subject: [CAUT] loaner programs

I've heard of a number of loaner programs that have ended in the current
economic mess. (Loaner programs, meaning, dealers lending new pianos to
institutions in exchange for a heavily promoted onsite sale of pianos to the
public.)

Have others of these programs ended? Do these programs continue as usual in
some places?


Just curious,


Kent



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