In 1997, Bill and Sandy Boyce handed over their six successful North Carolina Yamaha piano stores to Bill’s son,
and moved to Florida to relax and enjoy their new retirement home. That plan lasted about 90 days. Bill and
Sandy quickly found they had too much enthusiasm and love for the music business to stay away.
Yamaha had a hand in the matter, too. The Boyce’s had been so successful selling Yamaha pianos in North Carolina
for the past 20 years, Yamaha offered Bill and Sandy the proverbial “deal you can’t refuse.”
Soon after Bill and Sandy Boyce opened their Sarasota Piano Distributors store, they began looking for a substantial
size warehouse that could also function as a company headquarters. Bill had used this type of multiple-purpose
facility successfully in North Carolina.
Bill and Sandy found what they were looking for in centrally-located Palmetto, Florida. This 14,000 sq. ft. structure is
ideally situated in west central Florida only minutes from the Skyway Bridge to St. Petersburg, I-75 to Tampa, and
I-4 to Orlando and Florida's east coast.
In addition to a large warehousing and delivery capability, the new facility included some office space which was
quickly expanded to include management offices and a 1,000-sq. ft. showroom for on-site selling events. At least
twice a year, Piano Distributors conducts a major sale at their Palmetto warehouse location. In fact, Bill and Sandy
Boyce consider this to be their “seventh” store in central Florida.
In addition to hundreds of Yamaha and other major brand keyboard instruments, the Palmetto complex houses the
offices of the vice-president of operations, the head of accounting and staff, marketing, delivery management and
the remarkably modest offices of Bill and Sandy Boyce.
One building. Many functions. That pretty much sums up the Piano Distributors Headquarters and Warehouse in
Palmetto, Florida.
E-mail Us 1475 12th Street E.
Palmetto, FL 34221 941-729-5047
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