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  • 1.  Current Petrof Importer?

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-11-2007 08:35 
    From dpshans@aol.com

Can someone tell who the current Petrof Importer is?  How about contact information?  Thanks in advance.

    

Dan Dannenfelser
Sacramento









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  • 2.  Current Petrof Importer?

    Posted 12-11-2007 09:02 
    From "Paul McCloud" <pmc033@earthlink.net>

I believe it is Geneva International.   800 533-2388.



    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
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  • 3.  Current Petrof Importer?

    Posted 12-11-2007 10:53 
    From voce88@aol.com

Actually, Geneva's contract is not currently valid. They may have fixed things in the last few weeks, but last I heard - there is currently NO Petrof distributor here in the USA.

Rich Galassini
Cunningham Piano Company
(800) 394-1117



    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
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  • 4.  Current Petrof Importer?

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 12-11-2007 10:12 
    From "Cy Shuster" <cy@shusterpiano.com>

The PTG site has a great Industry Resource Directory, under Resources at left:
http://ptg.org/resourceDirectory-searchCategory.php?Submit2=Search+by+Category

Geneva is right.

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  • 5.  Current Petrof Importer?

    Posted 12-11-2007 10:14 
    From "Michael Magness" <IFixPianos@yahoo.com>

On Dec 11, 2007 9:35 AM, <dpshans@aol.com> wrote:

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I remember reading something, I think it was in the Journal a few months
ago, that Petrof was leaving Geneva International and was going to be
handling their importing themselves.
Geneva was going to sue for breach of contract but I never heard what
happened.
Mike

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Magness Piano Service
608-786-4404
www.IFixPianos.com
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  • 6.  Current Petrof Importer?

    Posted 12-11-2007 12:40 
    From Willem Blees <wimblees@aol.com>

According to the Petrof dealer I used to work for back in Alabama, there is no Petrof importer right now. Geneva has exclusive rights to sell Petrof for 6 more years, but?Petrof is trying to get out of the contract. To make matter more complicated, Geneva owns the name Petrof in the US. As a result, Petrof is not shipping pianos to Geneva, Geneva is not sending Petrof to their dealers, and the dealers are running out of Petrofs. No one is making?any money, except the lawyers.


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com



    
                                                
    
					
                                                    

        
                                                
				
    
                                                
    
                                                    
                                                        
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