---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment If these people will marble their shower stall, spend $40,000 on landscaping, $75,000 for the Land Rover or Hummer or fly first class to Europe for a vacation they can afford the best piano on the market. It is partly up to us, the technician, to help educate in this regard. How many potential life long piano students lose interest because their inexpensive piano just doesn't have the pretty tone, long decay, and singing quality of a beautiful handmade piano. Ask any real professional why they insist on a minimum level of quality. It's not the name on the fallboard, it's the quality of the sound they are getting. Just my opinion. TP It isn't just the sound. It's also the consistency of play, responsiveness, ease of maintenance, availability of parts, and honoring of warranties that one gets with a reputable company that's been around for awhile. Given a choice between a high quality used instrument and a poor quality used piano, I would recommend that my customer buy a used instrument that has been checked out by a technician. You won't find me arguing your claim that even some of the least desirable instruments from the far east are probably more serviceable than the low-end Aeolian products(Winter, Wellington, Andrew Kohler, etc., etc.) from the 70s. Dave S. In a message dated 1/30/04 6:28:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, Topperpiano@aol.com writes: > What I am about to say is really aimed at the customer so don't assume that > I am talking down to the list: > > I tell customers who are considering a Chinese piano that they are much > better than the inexpensive pianos of yesteryear. Meaning that they have better > scaling, better execution and more reliable consistency of manufacturing than > the Winter spinets, Rudolph Wurlitzers, or Cable pianos of the past and at > least the cabinets are very unobtrusive in design and don't have ugly grill > cloth, yellow oak, photo finishes or plates that look like something salvaged > from a WWII scrap yard. What I do say is that the main difference between > pianos of this quality is not really the mechanical or structural integrity > (laminate materials are very stable) but the acoustically favorable materials and > design. Higher quality pianos will just last longer under stressful > institutional use and sound better in the process. When speaking to the customer I > try to explain that when you are paying triple the price for a piano what you > are getting is sound. I have no problem with the dealers selling this lower > quality of pianos to people who can't afford more, I just have a problem with > the quality being portrayed to the customer as something they are not. Most > of the time the sales people are so uninformed that they march the customer > over to the cheapest piano on the floor and start touting the virtues of the > quality because they are so afraid of losing the sale to another Chinese > pianos at a competitive dealer. They forget that many people can afford something > better and with very little real education can hear the difference. How > many times have we walked into a $500,000 home and seen a piano that cost less > then the kitchen stove or refrigerator. > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/38/11/a9/63/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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