Yamha Ivorite Keytops

[Jon Page]

Gina,
I realized the day of the week after I posted the request.
I purchased the piano out of estate sale but I do know who the
original owner was if I wanted to be devious about it.

It's probably out of warranty, the serial # 4090882.  
Is there a website to check dates?

It is a real honey, although I had referred the tuning to someone
else I was there for the opening whistle for the sale.
I arrived at the place 15 minutes prior to the 8"00 opening.
I was at the end of a sixty foot line and by the time 8:00 came
around, it was equally long behind me.

This was a restaurant/inn establishment, everything went fast.
I made a bee line to the Yamaha and found one of the workers
who directed me to another guy in the other room. I buzzed over there
and cornered him. fortunately no one was looking at the piano during this.

We went to the piano, I lifted the vinyl cover to lift the fallboard and
pluncked a few keys,  just as I remembered. A real honey. I asked how much,
6k, without hestiation I said, "I'll take it". I didn't want to get into a
bidding war.
I'm sure he would not take a reduction in the first 5 minutes of the sale.

There were 2 other pianos, I passed on the Baldwin R with buzzing bass
strings but bought the Wurl cons. for $750. I got him down from 1k.
 Returning later to retrieve my goodies, the Baldwin had been sold (I was
going to offer 1500 to 2k, not the 4k they were asking; it went for 3.5k)
and they asked I I'd deliver it for them. No problem.

The Yamaha had a custom fit smoked glass top for the front and back.
Not a scratch on them, the sides have a few minor chair marks, no problem.

So that's what I did yesterday, lost track of what day of the week it was.
Now, it's like getting a whole day; free :-)

So the only thing this needs is to file the hammers and change the keytops.
I may trade it to the Cape Cod Conservatory for a long scale S&S A which
needs restringing and action replacement :-).

Jon, the happy camper

At 10:17 PM 9/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Jon,
>
>If the piano is still under warranty, no problem. Yamaha is really great
>about this. (Ask me how I know. <g>)
>
>I do suggest that you wait till Monday to call Greg, though. :-)
>
>Gina
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net>
>To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 9:28 PM
>Subject: Yamha Ivorite Keytops
>
>
>>List,
>>I just pored through as many of the archives as I could
>>stand on the discoloration subject (66 maches).
>>
>>What is Yamaha's policy now on this, do they supply
>>the material or replace the keyboard?
>>I'll call Greg Frank at Yamaha (800) 854-1569 @
>>12 noon tomorrow (9am Pacific).
>>
>>It was nice seeing some long unseen names: Warren Fisher
>>and André Oorebeek to name a few.
>>
>>Jon Page
>>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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