Klarinet Archive - Posting 000119.txt from 2003/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] music123
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 18:44:32 -0500

At 11:30 AM 11/5/2003 -0800, Rick Campbell wrote:
>...Web and mail order sales are a problem for every industry, and
>management can make a decision to support their smaller dealers and insist
>on a Minimum Advertised Price if they want. It takes strong managers with
>a clear service-after-sale philosophy. Volume sales to discounters look so
>much easier.

Yamaha has instituted an MAP pricing policy on their student-line and some
other instruments.

>Relative to quality from the major manufacturers, my local repairman tells
>me that (major French maker) professional model saxophones now take
>several hours of adjustment before he will sell them, which makes you
>wonder about mail order. That on a $5000 horn!

I've never been able to figure out why the "major French maker" saxophones
usually require adjustment, while the Jupiters almost NEVER do.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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