Klarinet Archive - Posting 001057.txt from 2004/07

From: "Film & Music Promotion Management" <FilmPromotion@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Feeling like Yamaha is one stupidly run company!
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:27:40 -0400

Lars, in general - most Music Stores cater to the "boyhood Guitar
wonders of the world". The local music stores are the ones who out
budget the private studio teachers with their big budget advertizing
(yellow pages, etc) and print ads.
Then they hire hack teachers who will accept $8 a lesson.
So the experienced teachers who actually have something to teach
instead of giving a 1/2 hr babysitting session suffer from it.
A lot ( I say most) of the "mom and pop" music stores rip off their
customers with the "rent forever" system of instrument purchasing.

Sorry, I'd much rather have a young student buy a quality instrument
like the Wooden Buffet E-11 for $600 instead of a plastic one for $550
locally....

And as for repair technicians, I go to the private ones instead of
sending my students to the stores which keep them for 2 weeks as they
never have onsite staff and farm out the repairs to A PRIVATE
TECHNICIAN.

David Blumberg

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Lars Kirmser" <musictrader@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Feeling like Yamaha is one stupidly run company!
Message-ID: <016f01c475a5$dd82b180$6601a8c0@-----.net>

> This is not true if the local retailer figures it out in time.....
>
> Your sentence should read, "internet retailers".....and should go on
to
add,
> "at very reasonable prices".
>
> Change doesn't come easy for some.
>
> Forest Aten
> Clarinet/bass clarinet
> Dallas Opera

Please Forest,
Share with me some of your inimitable wisdom. What exactly are local
retailers required to "figure out"? As Walter alluded, Retailers can
meet
(excuse me) internet wholesale prices and LOSE money on EACH sale we
make.
(Oh, Oh, did I hear my wife locking the front door?). You (musicians)
can't
have it both ways. Local service is an adjunct to local sales. If you
want
local services, you must support them with sales, or they will be
unable to
continue operating a store front. I believe that it is inevitable in
the
not-so-distant future, musicians will ONLY be able to purchase AND
service
their instruments via the internet (mail, UPS, FEDEX, etc.). Maybe
that's
what retailers have to figure out and eventually face.
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