This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Tom, I totally agree, you cannot discount that S&S still make a very good = instrument. Stuart Balsillie ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Tom Servinsky=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 5:55 AM Subject: RE: ref S&S marketing techniques Terry, I dont know whats worst S&S and their marketing techniques or the = people who own these "precious" instruments,............ gee when asked = to do some work some owners think you about to operate on their only = child. But you cant blame S&S for trying.............. >Ahhhh...marketing, the price we pay for a free market/capitalistic = society. Just remember that many marketing techniques ( annoying and = tenacious as they tend to be), are generally proven through marketing = studies demonstrating buying trends of potential buyers. The better the = marketing the better the sales, the better the chances of survival. Like = it or not, volitility is ever-present in all businesses.=20 Steinway, in my opinion, has been masterfull through all these years = at marketing their product. They have effectively convinced generations = that their product,and only their product, should be the instrument of = choice. Argue if you will, but they have effectively drilled that = message loud and clear. And lastly, the last count I took of remaining = US piano manufacturers , the Steinway & Sons Piano Company still = continues to be tops of that list.=20 Tom Servinsky, RPT =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/33/09/d0/fc/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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