Just to add my 2¢, I see a number of these in south Louisiana (like FL, the driest my shop has ever been is 35%), most have no problems, but a few are basically worn out, as Terry said. Recently I looked at 3 U1s from the 80's, all were in great shape action, bridge and soundboard wise but the pin blocks were boarderline at best, very difficult to tune solidly because you had no definate feel for the pin movement. These may hang on here but if moved to a drier area will probably not last. The guy selling them said to a potential customer, in my hearing, that Yamahas are always loose because they use 1/0 pins, so technicians (me) that point out possible problems simply dont know what they are talking about. I took some offense at this and feel that this guy is working the shady side of the street, if not actually dishonest, at least misleading. A couple of years back I was in Vermont and heard from a technician there of several gray market pianos he bought in the south, sold in the north, that became untunable the first winter in VT, causing him no end of headaches. So, let the buyer beware and keep your house humid in the winter..... ----Dave ----------------------------- Dave Doremus, RPT New Orleans ------------------------------ On 1/4/04, Phil Bondi said: >Norman, I concur with what Terry Farrell said about the gray markets >in Florida..I don't see as many as he does up there, but you >definitely take your chances with them considering the corporation >will not honor any warranties, which for the most part, have run out >anyway. > >My personal experiences with them is similar to Terry's, with the >exception of finding out the hard way when it came to getting >information from the corporation about a stringing scale. > >-Phil Bondi(FL) >phil@philbondi.com > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives --
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