Tony, Two or three years ago, one of our lease program verticals consistently had condensation on the inside of the piano every time I opened it to tune. Do you think this could be the same problem? At the time, I just attributed it to the lousy air-conditioning system in our old music building. That was the only one that had that problem. Then or since. Just curious. Avery >The way I see it is simple, pianos regardless of price are supposed to last >for a long time. Look at the cheaper pianos made by Yamaha. There are two >types, normal and tropical. Tropical they use waterproof adhesives and the >hammer heads are stapled. Normal they use white glue and the hammer heads >are not stapled. The cheaper Indonesian piano is Tropical. Kawai, reciently >I inspected a top of the range Kawai upright that had water dripping on the >top. The top had swollen CHIPWOOD WITH GREEN GLUE. No comment. > >Tony caute@accessnt.com.au ___________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4893 713-743-3226 http://www.music.uh.edu/
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