grey market?

[JIMRPT@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/05/1999 4:01:55 AM, Mark wrote:

<<"John posted a great FAQ list on grey pianos.

If you're out there John, what was the source? There are some fairly big
assumptions  and statements made, if they are accurate, I'd like to use and
quote them">>

Mark;
  It would be prudent not to stick too closely to that FAQ list as there 
'were' factual and conceptual misstatements contained therein. (my opinion)

  There really are only three things to consider about these thingees:

1. The Japanese 'don't' make an inferior product to sell on their domestic 
market.

2.  Any wooden item that spends the first 20 years of life in one type of 
enviroment and then is changed to a completely different type of environment, 
will develop problems of 'some' description.  This is true whether the 
moisture content when manufactured was 5% or 100%.  This is also true when 
the climate that the item is moved from is a hot dry climate and the new 
climate is hot and wet, and all of the permutations in between.

3.  These thingees are "used" instruments, in most cases 'well used' :-) As 
such they may be expected to display all of the usual "used" instrument 
symptoms that any other used instrument would display if it was moved from 
say; Florida to the Plains of Canada; or from the Arizona desert to the 
Sydney Australia area.
  "If" the problems inherent in 'any' used instrument/relocation are attended 
to, with all the factors considered, there is no reason to shy away from 
these thingees.

 Now admittedly that is a BIG "if". :-)

Jim Bryant (FL)