New piano manuals

[Lou Pesce]

Are the manuals available for downloading from web
sites ?  Does anyone know the locations of these
sites?
Regards,
Lou
--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
> Well, I dont know about "over there" for sure
> anymore... but "over here"
> virtually every piano comes out of the box with some
> kind of "How to take
> care of your Fine Quality instrument" brochure. And
> Steinway comes with
> this big patent leather whatchmacallit thingy that
> resembles an automobile
> service manual only with a bit more style.
> 
> However.... how many of these manuals get passed the
> retailers circular
> file is another matter entirely. Ignorance is bliss
> I think is the basic
> idea they go by.... the customers ignorance... and
> the dealers bliss
> methinks. :)
> 
> RicB
> 
> Clyde Hollinger wrote:
> 
> > Friends,
> >
> > A client recently purchased a new Steinway
> vertical (yes, I know, but
> > they didn't ask me).  Relatively few of my clients
> buy new pianos, but
> > routinely I ask them if they received a manual
> with the purchase, with
> > the intention of suggesting that they follow the
> manufacturer's
> > recommendations for tuning and humidity control.
> >
> > So I posed the question to this client, who said
> that she couldn't
> > remember receiving a manual.  I called the
> retailer she purchased the
> > piano from, who stated that frequently pianos do
> not come with manuals,
> > since there wouldn't be much to say anyway except
> keep the piano tuned.
> >
> > Is this true of most companies, that they don't
> supply owner's manuals?
> > Is this the direction things are going?  It seems
> to me that even if a
> > purchaser buys an El Cheapo for a couple thousand
> bucks, that's still a
> > considerable sum of money and something should be
> included with basic
> > information on a piano's care.  Comments?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Clyde Hollinger, RPT
> > Lititz, PA, USA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> 
> 


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