This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment =93And we are very excited at being able to offer members of the = musical instrument industry in China the opportunity to experience the = extraordinary quality of all of our instruments.=94 In China? Who are they foolin'? These pianos will end up in the good = ol' US of A! I'm concerned about the future of the Truman, AR plant. = All we need is something else made in China and shipped over here! This = is just another step by Henry Juszkiewicz and Gibson to exploit the = Baldwin Piano name at the expense of American workers! Too bad--Soooo sad! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731-881-1852 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: J Patrick Draine=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: That's Business! Was Baldwin, Yamaha, etc. On Jan 8, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Alan wrote: Maybe Wal-Mart will buy the Baldwin name and have Pearl River build = pianos to sell=20 Page 32 of the January issue of the Piano Technicians Journal has a = press release regarding "a joint venture with [the] Chinese government = 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 = Instruments Co., Ltd., based in Zhongshan, China, made its exhibition = debut at the Music China Expo (Oct. 20-23). The trade show was held at = Shanghai New International Expo Center, where guests had the opportunity = to get up close and personal with some of the finest pianos in the = world. Among the pianos displayed at the Baldwin Zhongshan booth were = the Baldwin nine-foot SD10 concert grand, Wurlitzer grands, and = Hamilton, J.C. Fischer and Sunshine vertical pianos, as well as a = Baldwin E225 grand piano with the ConcertMaster player system. Also = displayed were Gibson, Kramer and Epiphone guitars.=20 =93We are very pleased with the immediate success of our newest = acquisition in Zhongshan, China,=94 said Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and = CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., (parent company of Baldwin Piano Inc.), = =93And we are very excited at being able to offer members of the musical = instrument industry in China the opportunity to experience the = extraordinary quality of all of our instruments.=94 Patrick Draine ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b9/97/fa/aa/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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