I just did that and it said the piano was manufactured in Hamamatsu, Japan. Are all Yamaha's manufactured in Japan considered "gray market"? TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com --- On Tue, 3/23/10, paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> wrote: From: paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Yamahas Gray Market? To: toddpianoworks at att.net, pianotech at ptg.org Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 11:45 PM To determine whether or not it's gray market, you can go to Yamaha's website, look for the serial number/mfg year page, then enter the ser#. If it's gray market, it will tell you. It will also tell you that they do not supply parts for gray market pianos in the US. That said, the only thing I can think of about gray market that may bring about the tuning instability, well, I don't think it applies significantly in Houston... where it's pretty much always humid by my recollection. I service one gray market G3A here in the land of dry indoor winters. My first appt with it was in February a couple years ago and I measured RH at 26% and it's still holding up fine. I've also seen a used one marked way way way down at a large music store... mighta had sumthin' to do with the 3-4mm cracks (plural) in the soundboard. Also, the one I service has a tuning record card in Japanese, as well as a decal inside the rim with "Yamaha Piano", and some Japanese. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM, <toddpianoworks at att.net> wrote: Hi all, I have a client situation (church) with their grand piano not holding it's tune. It's a G3. I have tuned it twice in the past several months. After the second time, she said within a week unisons started going out. After I finished tuning it, and sit down to play pieces, I was able to knock some unisons out fairly easily. I went back and cleaned up the unisons. I did this three or four times. I have heard about a gray market with Yamaha. Could this be it? Thoughts anyone? Matthew Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100323/73f4b13c/attachment.htm>
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