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Article: CRITCHETT PIANO
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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'Throwing Used Pianos Away'
For over 50 years manufacturers and retailers have cited used pianos as the industry's toughest competitor. Used piano sales remain a huge market factor that typically goes undetected by most retailers; however, Dave Brown, president of Critchett Piano in Des Moines, Iowa, feels that the used business is off the pace, which might explain the bounce in new piano sales.
'In our market it's getting harder to find good used pianos,' he explained. 'A lot of the uprights from the '50s and '60s ...