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In a message dated 9/6/98 5:25:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ETomlinCF3@aol.com
writes:

> You are not out of bounds here at all.  This is a forum for discussions such
>  as the one you bring up.  It is packed with emotion and even bias that we 
> all
>  carry for brands that we love. 
>  
>  Yes Yamaha does weed out almost all their problems.  In more than a dozen
>  years I cannot think of one Yamaha that came in with a glaring error.  Out 
> of
>  12,000+ parts and thousand upon thousands of pianos built yearly they just
>  keep improving.  I found ,while in Japan at the Yamaha factories, that they
>  hold tolerances up to .01 of a mm.  Name any company making pianos today 
> that
>  can say that.  You can expect excellence and at those prices... I would 
> demand
>  it.
>  
>  Ed Tomlinson
>  Vancouver Wa
>  
>  << Please somebody gently let me know if I'm out of bounds here.  I'm not a
>  technician, so I feel like I really don't belong here.  I'm just trying to
>  learn about pianos so I can be more knowledgeable when I ask for help from 
> my
>  technician.
>   

Hi Ed,

     You are, of course, correct. Japanese pianos, in general, are built to
hold up nicely and come out of the crate "playing" better than most other
pianos in the world. As techs., I think all would agree with that statement. 

     However, I am also a musician. What the Japanese pianos are NOT very good
at is giving me - or other pianists good long term performance and, in my
opinion, soul. As an example, I had a very nice conversation with Andre Watts
after a concert he played in the Philly area this past year. As you may know,
until recently, Andre was a Yamaha artist. Yamaha gave him a CFIII as his
personal piano. After 12 years of play, Andre has given up on the piano. He
feels that it is costing him too much to TRY to get it where it was when new.
He added that he would give it to a music school in the area and, perhaps pick
up a nice piano for himself, like a rebuilt Steinway or Mason. (He had just
played on one of my rebuilt Steinways, so perhaps saying that was "politically
correct" )

Just my 2 cents.

Richard Galassini
Cunningham Piano Co
1 800 394 1117

     My point is that