This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment All U1s are made in Japan. If you have a suspicion that your customers = piano is gray-market, just go to the Yamaha site, type in the serial = number, and find out. Kevin.=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Piannerman@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 6:33 PM Subject: Gray market Yamahas Salutations to all, In an Asian person's home the other day and tuned a U1. Nice = piano but for some reason the tone quality just didn't seem as nice as = what I am accustomed to. The serial number was higher than the latest = one (1996) listed in the Pierce Atlas and the couple had purchased it = from another individual within the last year or so. So I was idly = wondering if the piano could be a "gray market" when I noticed it - = "Made in Japan" stenciled on the plate. Aha!! Definitely a "gray = market piano". I didn't say anything to the customer but came home to my own U1, = purchased about 6 years ago from a Yamaha dealer, smugly confident that = my piano was a bonafide, Made in America Yamaha. Lifted up the lid and = there it was - "Made in Japan", right on the plate. I could have = croaked. Does this mean that I have a "gray market piano?" Surely = there must be a way to tell by looking. Do all Yamahas say "Made in = Japan", even the ones that are made over here? Please advise as I have an inquiring mind and would really = appreciate some insight on this burning question. (Sorry if this has = been covered in depth previously.) Charles Cron Rockfield, KY ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3b/f5/06/f2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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