Gray Market Pianos/the tally

[Farrell]

Go to Yamaha web site:  http://yamaha.com/pianoserials/index.htm  and type in serial number. They will reply with whether the piano was made for the North American market.

Some folks will say that you can tell it is a grey market if it only has two pedals - well, yes, it is a grey market if only two pedals, but if it has three, it still might be a grey market. Importers have available to them an sostenuto upgrade kit that provides a full sostenuto and a three pedal lyre.

And while we are on the topic, I think this Yamaha policy of non-support is really bad business.

Terry Farrell
  
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: Gray Market Pianos/the tally


> How do you identify "gray market Yamahas?"
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