acoustic? ACOUSTIC???

[Richard Moody]

I'm in the piano business, Richard. Period. It is in our best
interests to see that all
aspects of that business survive.

Del

Yes.  Well said, I agree.   

	It looks like I got carried away in "nit picking" that looks too
much like sarcasim, for which I beg your pardon. . 

	
	Richard Moody

	"If I shall say anything too facetious, you will judge me
indulgently" 
	        Hor.  (Horace's Satires 1.4.104-5)(Quoted by Laurence Sterne
"Tristam Shandy")
Hmm  I wonder how Horace G. (others?) would translate the Latin? 

	"Dixero si quid fortè joco(s?)ius, hoc mihi juris Cum venia dabis
----"
 


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> From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: acoustic?  ACOUSTIC???
> Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 9:53 AM
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Moody wrote:
> 
> > --------------------------
> >
> > Del wrote:
> >
> > > Nope. Rebuilt pianos are not allowed. Not yours, not mine, not
> > anyone's. That misses my
> > > point entirely. Every time a piano is
> > rebuilt/restored/remanufactured/whatever, a new
> > > piano goes unsold.
> >
> > What was your point?  Are you then in the Retail trade, or the
> > Rebuilt trade? But it sounds like a good opprotunity for those of
us
> > looking at the rebuilt trade
> >
> > Richard C Moody (the C stands for buyers's consultant)
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Richard,
> 
> No, I'm not in the retail trade. But your trade will not survive
very long without the
> retail trade. When the retail trade (which obviously includes the
manufacturing trade)
> dies, so does the support industry that keeps it all going. Who is
going to making your
> tuning pins? What do you think they will they cost? Who is going to
keep making hammer
> felt for our insignificant little after-market trade? And at what
cost? The list goes on
> to include just about every component of the piano that you use
when you rebuild one.
> Damper felt? Center pins? What about hammershanks and wippens?
Piano rebuilding is only
> possible/practical because of the overflow of component parts
produced by those vendors
> that supply the piano manufacturers. Do you really think that
Renner could exist on the
> business supplied by rebuilders? Even if they could, the price of
these parts would go up
> astronomically. Have you ever priced having a single agraffe made
at your local machine
> shop? We have access to these parts and components only because
they are made in quantity
> for the piano manufacturers.
> 
> I'm in the piano business, Richard. Period. It is in our best
interests to see that all
> aspects of that business survive.
> 
> Del
>