Australian sold Yamaha

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In a message dated 6/06/2000 12:09:06 AM, Tony C. wrote:

<<"All Yamaha grand's sold in Australia are top of the range, made in Japan,

tropicalised pianos.  Most likely the same as those made / sold in America.">>

Tony;
 I always thought there was a vast difference between say Alice Springs and 
Sydney? Isn't there?  Or does the four eucalyptus trees in Alice Springs make 
it a "tropical Paradise"? :-)

  Whether a piano was "made" for a certain climate or not  the climate which 
it lives in for the first years of its service is a determining factor in 
where these thingees should and should not go as 'used' thingees, and If they 
go where they shouldn't..... what can be done to prevent problems.

 Example: a piano which has spent the first 15 years in Alice Springs is 
gonna develop some problems when it is shipped to live in Sydney...Or Miami 
TO: Anchorage...or Los Angeles TO: Pheonix....... and vise a versa on all 
those locations.

 When a 'used' piano, be it grey market,or S&S, or Baldwin etc..... is shipped
 to a vastly different climate, or life style, then it needs to be treated 
accordingly.  DC systems in those going from dry to wet and
'Full' DC systems in those going from wet to dry. (or as I am sure some will 
say 'full' systems in both)

 With a little common sense from us tech types that should be no 
unsurmountable problems with these "grey market" thingees. Marketing types 
notwithstanding. :-)
My view.
Jim Bryant (FL)