> > The Japanese are such industrious and intelligent people, that you would > think that surely they would stop and go back to the drawing-board before > shipping one. Exactly. This is why I find it hard to believe these things are accidental. Maybe there's a Japanese television show where locals win prizes by accurately underestimating the standards of the American piano buying public. I must admit though, this is a vivid demonstration of the premises held by the general public that 1: Grands are just that, or they wouldn't call them that, so any grand shaped keyboard object is desirable. 2: Grand pianos are interchangeable, and the only differences between them are the price, and total square footage of the picture and plant arrangement and display surface on top. 3: Yamahas come highly recommended by technicians, so anything with the name on the box has the "stuff" under the hood - regardless of how it sounds. 4: It's very shiny, isn't it, and won't everyone attending the party be impressed? 5: Pianos are immortal, especially grand pianos, so this one should be perfect and impressive in every way forever more. Still, someone(s) went considerably out of their collective way to make these instrumentoids sound this bad, but not as bad as they could have sounded. Why? Ron N
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