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| | Samick Music Corporation - 3/94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The Samick Music Corporation, of City of Industry, California, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented the wood content of the soundboards in pianos it sold through retailers across the country. |
 | | Promotional materials given to consumers and retailers represented that the pianos contained soundboards constructed of "solid spruce" or "spruce," when, in fact, the soundboards were not composed entirely of spruce, and had only outer layers of spruce and inner layers of other types of wood, the FTC alleged. |
 | | In fact, according to the FTC, from 1985 until early 1990, many of the soundboards made by Samick were not composed entirely of spruce, but were composed of outer spruce layers with inner layers of another type or types of wood, and the representations to the contrary were false and misleading. |
| www.ftc.gov /opa/predawn/F95/samickmusicco.htm (548 words) |
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