Kristinn, You wrote: >we have a dealer here who passes his J. Becker pianos off as Dutch. The >only pianos I know of from Holland are Rippen and they went out of business >in ´89. The only connection these Russian-made instruments have to >Holland, is that they´re shipped from Rotterdam to Iceland. We believe, as >Brian said, that the best way to tackle this is to have an unfortunate >buyer file a fraud charge, but so far we haven´t found anyone who´s willing >to do that. As far as I know, when the Rippen factory in Ede Holland closed, the inventory was moved to Saint Petersburg together with some people of the staff. There they started making Becker pianos. I have seen those instruments on the Musikmesse in Frankfurt and there were also some faces I have seen on the 2 Rippen factory tours I made. So that is all what is Dutch about Becker. Michiel van Loon Meppel Holland
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