Posted by OAFC on July 17, 2001 at 13:56:16:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Polite tuba testing. posted by Zac on July 16, 2001 at 21:55:11:
I disagree with you completely. The retailer/seller must also realize that the object of the (potential) customer is to pick out the best instrument for him/her. The possibility of a customer inadvertently damaging an instrument is always there, always has been, this is nothing new. The retailer knows this, and has taken steps to deal with it, and knows this is the cost of doing business. Face it, the player wants to find the best instrument for him/herself, and to accomplish this, they must try the instrument. If you don't try the instrument, well, then that would be like buying an instrument on eBay without knowing the critical piece of information, how the instrument plays for you. Walk into a violin shop, and you have to ask to see a certain particular instrument (or a variety of such). If the tubas are just sitting out in a room, the customer is going to play 'em. If, as the retailer, you wish to leave the customer unsupervised, yet want the customer to behave in a specified manner while in your shop, by all means, let them know. That will be your way of conducting business.