[pianotech] Yamahas Gray Market?

[Ken & Pat Gerler]

I have a "gray market" piano in my client base.  It is a 7 foot without sustenuto. A previous technician was going to try to add it - found a 3-pedal lyre, drilled the appropriate hole in the keybed and that is as far as it got. I wondered why it was that way until I looked up the serial number.  The only way it would ever get a sustenuto, would be from a piano that was destroyed in other than the action cavity and salvage it's sustenuto.

I don't know if it is true of all "gray market" piano, but this one is painted "flat black" on the under side vs. left wood color.

Ken Gerler
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: paul bruesch 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:40 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Yamahas Gray Market?


  It took a while for me to find this page again (which is why I didn't link it in my last response!) but go here:
  http://www.yamaha.com/yca/pages/pianos/SerialNumberlookup.aspx
  and enter your client's serial number. 

  Paul Bruesch
  Stillwater, MN


  On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net> wrote:

          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

         


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