Hello, list As I understand it, to satisfy Taiwan's import-export laws and help a very large unemployment problem, the components are shipped from Japan and assembled in the "factory" in Taiwan. They are not supposed to leave the country. The ones I have worked on looked just like your description. At 08:40 AM 2/26/97 -0500, you wrote: >Yesterday I tuned a Yamaha P3 for a Chinese family who just moved here from >Taiwan, and brought their piano with them. This piano, to put it bluntly, >looks terrible. The hammer moldings are brown, the damper rod is bent, keys >are warped, tuning pin torque is not uniform, to name just a few of the >problems. Even the finish is not what have seen on other P3's. > >The lady told me the piano was tuned and inspected just before they left >Taiwan, but the problems I saw were not "moving" damage. Most of the problems >are just bad manufacturing. I have seen some mainland China pianos, mostly >from the Pearl River Factory, and this piano could fit right in. > >Does anyone know if Yamaha has a manufacturing plant in Taiwan, or mainland >China? The serial number started with a T. > >Willem Blees RPT >St. Louis > > Paul Graeber Piano Service pgraeber@1connect.com San Jose, California The unknown still smiles Behind a hazy shadow. How to find it Why? "Sidney Harris"
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