Yamaha and Bechstein Grey market

[Don]

Hi Joseph,

It may be too late for this piano but I would certainly recommend a dc unit
with bottom cover and an additional room type humidifier.

At 01:18 PM 5/10/02 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 5/10/02 12:39:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Kdivad@AOL.COM 
>writes:
>
><<   The change in climate
> >does make a difference, but if the piano stays here 6 months or more, all
> >the damage that will come from the change will have occurred.  >>
>
     
>    I wish this were always the case. I have a customer who bought a 1950 
>yamerha after it had been meticulously rebuilt including new pinblock
strings 
>case refinished new action parts etc. I highly recommended this piano to
them 
>and for about a year and a half the piano was wonderful. Then it began to 
>self destruct. The lid veneer has cracked in about 20 places. Its just a 
>matter of time before they're picking up pieces of veneer that have fallen 
>off the lid onto the strings or floor.                                  The 
>soundboard is also cracked now in more places than I care to count . As well 
>as probably 10 big cracks there are tiny cracks about every 1/2 inch along 
>the treble bridge, i.e. shredded wheat. The piano remained crack free for 
>nearly 2 yrs. and all the above mentioned damage occured during the 
>subsequent year.                                        I'm not a rebuilder 
>but I can't imagine that these are repairable problems. The only solution
for 
>them now is to replace the soundboard and lid. Or even better, the whole 
>piano.                                                                      
>This was not the first grey-market piano I have recommended , but certainly 
>is the LAST.
     
>                            JOSEPH D. GOTTA RPT
>
>

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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