Grey Market Pianos/Dealers

[Farrell]

I agree to a point Hazen. In Florida these grey market pianos seem to do quite well. But I have heard from several techs in areas that experience a very dry winter that these pianos self destruct. The RH in homes in central Florida do not commonly get below 40% RH. With the heat that is more commonly used in your neck of the woods, RH should get lower, but likely not nearly as low as Duluth or Saskatoon.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HazenBannister@cs.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: Grey Market Pianos/Dealers 


> In a message dated 03/02/2003 3:14:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> JStan40@aol.com writes: 
> > While it might be true that a manufacture will slightly alter specifications
> > for different regions of the world, there is no such thing as a piano that
> > is design to work for an entire geographic region in terms of climate; the
> > US for example has almost every extreme possible. Besides, these pianos are
> > located in homes that are in very similar climate controlled environments.
> Hi list,
>   I agree with this totally,and cannot understand how these pianos can just 
> fall apart, as I read about on this list,unless it's outside on a porch.I 
> service many of these instruments,and have yet to see any problems.I'm not 
> disputing these claims,but am just trying to educate myself as to,be fair to 
> my customer when questions come up concerning these instruments.
> Best,
> Hazen Bannister
>