Sherman Clay

[Sy Zabrocki]

We have an old Sojin brochure which states Sojin was a division of Daewoo.
They are out of business now.
Sy Zabrocki

----- Original Message -----
From: David Ilvedson <ilvey@jps.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 12:42 AM
Subject: RE: Sherman Clay


> Could be Daiwoo (spelling).  I dont' know who the heck that is but they
did
> make Sherman, Clay pianos in that time frame.
>
> David I.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of Sy Zabrocki
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 9:15 PM
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: Sherman Clay
>
>
> We have a question for west coast tuners. At about 1984 who was producing
> pianos for Sherman Clay? Was it Samick or Sojin, or both at different
times?
>
> (Back then Sherman Clay was a west coast dealer with about 23 pianos
stores,
> down to about 11 lately I've heard).
>
> We've found a Sherman Clay 5'2" grand that was purchased in San Francisco
in
> 1984 and the buyer was not told it was an Asian piano. Now there is a new
> owner who would like to know the maker.
>
> I'm not that familiar with Samick or Sojin features that far back. This
> piano has a mysterious serian number. There is no number on the plate in
the
> usual area. There is a number of 8,104,744 stamped on the edge of the
keybed
> back where the lyre mounts. This same 8 million number is visible on the
key
> frame with the keyslip removed. Even Yamaha has only a 5 million number.
>
> Embossed in the plate are the numbers 6311 which must be the model number.
> It is not an exciting piano but we are curious about the maker.
>
> We thought west coast tuners would be more familiar with Sherman Clay.
> Thanks.
>
> Sy Zabrocki
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