<HEAD> <STYLE>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=compText> <P>I've never heard of a problem with a piano made for "dry" then moved to "wet" that was serious enough to justify selling it.   In my experience, it's as you suspect; built for dry does better in wet than the other way 'round.  </P> <P> </P> <P>Mark Wisner</P> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Barbara Richmond <PIANO57@INSIGHTBB.COM><BR>Sent: Oct 23, 2007 5:48 PM <BR>To: Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Subject: world traveling pianos <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD><ZZZMETA content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"><ZZZMETA content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name="GENERATOR"> <STYLE></STYLE> </ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY 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></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY>