---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Jan 8, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Alan wrote: > Maybe Wal-Mart will buy the Baldwin name and have Pearl River build=20 > pianos to sell Page 32 of the January issue of the Piano Technicians Journal has a=20 press release regarding "a joint venture with [the] Chinese government=20= and manufacturing partners to form Baldwin Zhongshan China." A web search came up with this more brief snippet: New Baldwins from China debut at Shanghai Expo Press Release The newest member of the Baldwin family, Baldwin Piano and Musical=20 Instruments Co., Ltd., based in Zhongshan, China, made its exhibition=20 debut at the Music China Expo (Oct. 20-23). The trade show was held at=20= Shanghai New International Expo Center, where guests had the=20 opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the finest pianos=20= in the world. Among the pianos displayed at the Baldwin Zhongshan booth=20= were the Baldwin nine-foot SD10 concert grand, Wurlitzer grands, and=20 Hamilton, J.C. Fischer and Sunshine vertical pianos, as well as a=20 Baldwin E225 grand piano with the ConcertMaster player system. Also=20 displayed were Gibson, Kramer and Epiphone guitars. =93We are very pleased with the immediate success of our newest=20 acquisition in Zhongshan, China,=94 said Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and=20= CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., (parent company of Baldwin Piano Inc.),=20 =93And we are very excited at being able to offer members of the musical=20= instrument industry in China the opportunity to experience the=20 extraordinary quality of all of our instruments.=94 Patrick Draine ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1805 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1a/12/c0/56/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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