seasoned for destination???

[Jerry Cohen]

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Bob,

 

Your C2 with the Dampp-Chaser installed will be just fine. BTW, the standard
humidistat is set for 42%, and the wet humidistat is 51%. This will be even
closer to the conditions in Japan. 

Enjoy your piano and your retirement. Oh, and don't forget to install the
system!!!

 

Jerry Cohen, RPT

New Jersey Chapt.

 

 

Hi List,

 

After being in the piano business for a number of years, playing the piano
for more years than I can count and owning a bunch of pianos, I have retired
from Oregon to Western North Carolina (Hendersonville) and have recently
purchased a gray market C2 silent (sn 5516795 made in the late 90's) from an
dealer in Florida.  

 

After selling Yamaha's for years, my brain continues to toss around the term
'seasoned for destination' like a stuck record.  We sales people were told
by Yamaha US that the soundboard and bridges were seasoned a few % drier
than those sold in the orient.  Well, of course, the destination of 'the US'
means indoor humidity conditions from 20% to 99%.  Oriental homes (inside)
must figure in that range somewhere, one would think.  The fellow I
purchased the piano from in Floriday stated that Yamaha doesn't season for
destination any longer. 

 

The climate in my home this summer with airconditioning (in a very warm,
damp outside climate) has been 75 degrees and from 45-48% humidity.  I
purchased a Dampp-Chaser wet humidistat (which I have yet to install) which
will keep the piano around 42%.  

 

So here's the question finally:  Will I be ok with my gray market C2 with a
wet humidistat installed?   Will my gray market piano be OK and stable at a
fairly continuous 42% humidity?

 

By the way, so far the C2 looks and sounds great!!!.   Fewer hot harmonics
that most new US C2's I've played.  Mellow but still clean; great breaks,
smooth action, easy to "whisper" on and a delight to play.  I put the flat
side parallel and 6" from the wall to help compensate for losing the bigger
bass of the C6 I sold before leaving Oregon.  The C2 Sounds great in an 18'
X 28' room with vaulted ceiling and hardwood floors (with a thick oriental
rug under the piano itself).

 

Thanks,

Bob Andrews

Hendersonville, NC


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