Illegal?

[Porritt, David]

I ran into a case where a local company bought a piano from a bandit and
they called me to tune it.  It had a small metal plate screwed to the
plate that said "Baldwin".  When I removed it to see what it really was
it said "Grand Piano Co."  I told the lady who represented the buyer to
call this bandit and say "I have a deal for you!  Come get this piano
and bring me back the money we paid and I won't call the police and file
charges of counterfeiting."  She called me back about a month later to
let me know that they got their money back!

 

dp

 

David M. Porritt

dporritt at smu.edu

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
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Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 7:34 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Illegal?

 

A while ago I was called to tune an old upright piano that had been
beautifully refinished. The fallboard 

had a Steinway decal, but the piano was not a Steinway! In fact, no name
could be found on the plate. Now, the character that sold this lady the
piano not only did something that was disgusting an unethical, I believe
it was illegal. Am I correct?

 

Jesse Gitnik

NYC

Tech. since 1980

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