<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Howdy all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Caterpillar Inc is headquartered here in Peoria, Illinois.   They transfer their workers to places all over the world.  I've seen a few "interesting" pianos that folks have brought with them.  Today I did a service bond tuning for a family from Belgium.  Typically folks from places other than the US, are only here for a few years.  I talked with the customer about this and she acknowledged that they didn't know where they would be going next--maybe Asia.  She said, "Then we would have to sell the piano because a piano made for the United States wouldn't do well in Asia."  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hmm, I thought it was the other way around.  I would have called Yamaha and asked, but I got busy "after school."  I would think that as long as there are DC systems and electrical adapters, a piano made for the North American continent would be OK over there.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark Wisner?  Don Mannino?  Anyone?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>near Peoria, Illinois</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>