<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Well... gotta admit I was being a bit er... provocative... my point is really that  too many folks dont know enough about how to take care of instruments to begin with... and that includes people selling them, working on them and owning them. Each and every grey market piano sold probably would be quite allright indeed if treated appropriately. Conversely even a brand new Steinway super duper will fall apart in a week or so if you treat it bad enough...     "Kevin E. Ramsey" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>     I went to the web-site that was listed for Yamaha in one of the other posts, and read what it said about their pianos that were made for the Japanese market, it's essentially the same as what I had originally wrote, so I really don't understand this post from Richard. Sure, if we get there before the piano is coming unglued or cracking, and if we can maybe sell them a DC unit (on an upright), or convince them to climate control the room, we can do them a service. But what about the pianos that we don't see until they develop real problems?    What does this thread have to do with "tooner/techs who don't have the foggiest idea......"  Kevin E. Ramsey <a href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</a></blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no</A>   </body> </html>