Yamaha and breaking strings -Reply

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Mark Wisner <MWisner@yamaha.com>
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: Kimballs and breaking strings -Reply
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 1997 2:33 PM
>
> Tom, you wrote "The reason the Yamaha P202s break bass strings is
> because of poor scaling, to which the company has admitted fault
and
> even offers, free, a new set of redesigned strings".
>
> Yamaha doesn't think the scaling for the P202 is faulty. .  But
since virtually all the calls reporting repeated string
> breakage originate from institutions, and almost never from a piano
in a
> home, or other moderate use environment, it's difficult to assume a
faulty
> design. The ones that experience chronic broken string problems are
just
> getting played too hard.
>
> More along the lines of a courtesy,
> acknowledging there are situations that require different solutions
than
> the standard ones.

	As a courtesy (actually as a matter of ethics now that the "problem"
is known), does Yamaha recommend that these pianos not be sold to
instutituions or places where it might get "played too hard"?  Or do
dealers simply tear off the sign "Warning for moderate use only"

Richard Moody