I think loan programs are common with other industries and manufacturers. This gives them an opportunity to expose their product to a target audience and is considered a long term marketing strategy. It benefits the college as well as the manufacturer. Problems are encountered when the college depends too much on loans and does not have enough of their own inventory. I for one would be interested in what you have learned. Though we have a good inventory of studio and performance pianos our practice rooms are sadly in need of replacement pianos. Not that all of the studio pianos are new, some needing rebuilding, they are keepers. Budgets being what they are, if you are fortunate to have a budget, loaner programs serve a useful purpose. Henry Nicolaides Piano Technician, School of Music Southern Illinois University > From: pianotenor at comcast.net > To: caut at ptg.org > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:16:18 -0700 > Subject: [CAUT] loan programs > > Hi all, > I am the new kid on the block and understand you have done a fair > bit of talking about the subject of loan programs. If anyone is > interested I would be happy to let you know what I have learned that > is making two significant programs work for two Universities I serve. > But it may be that everyone is tired of the subject. Anyone interested? > James Schmitt > Service tech for University of Portland _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100401/7d3a8e35/attachment-0001.htm>
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