Things go better with Coke?

Wimblees@AOL.COM Wimblees@AOL.COM
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:24:32 EDT


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Kevin

One problem you might run across with Yamaha is that hey will send the wrong 
bass strings. I would suggest you remove the bass strings, and send them to 
Los Angeles, so that the service department can duplicate them. 

About 10 year ago a customer bought a new Yamaha, and a week after she had it 
delivered, the cat decided to leave her calling card on the bass strings. The 
dealer's technician cleaned up as much as he could but the strings were dead. 
So the dealer asked me to solve the problem. I recommended a new set of bass 
strings. I called Yamaha with the serial number and model number, and they 
sent out a set of strings. Up to now, I had not removed the strings, so the 
customer was able to play to piano. When I got the strings, I cut the old 
ones off, and started to put the new ones on. Guess what, they sent the wrong 
strings. I called Yamaha, and they sent out another set. Same problem. The 
service department did some research and fund that they changed scale design 
on the same model in Japan, but somehow this information didn't get posted 
with them in Los Angeles. By the time I got the right strings, four weeks had 
passed, which meant the customer was not able to play the piano because I had 
removed all the bass strings. The only good part of this story is that Yamaha 
not only paid for the strings, but paid me to do the work. 

Wim 

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