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Warpy

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36. Oh, they'll sell the name to somebody

Tue Jul 2, 2013, 02:59 PM

Jul 2013

but they'll saddle the original company with enough debt to bankrupt it and cut it loose to die.

The problem is that pianos aren't really selling. Back even 100 years ago, if you wanted to listen to music, you pretty much had to play it on an instrument unless you were some kinda rich city feller with a gramophone. These days everybody's got some sort of device to play other people's music and if they do learn to play piano, they learn on an electronic instrument that takes up a lot less space and is a hell of a lot easier to move when the job dries up and the new one is in another city.

Few of us have the luxury of staying in one place and piano moving costs a fortune, even when it's a fairly light upright.

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