Early Asian pianos

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In a message dated 6/21/2001 9:32:02 AM Central Daylight Time, 
glenn@graftonpiano.com writes:


> BTW, I want to point out that referring to this as an "Asian piano" 
> lumps all pianos together that are made in Korea, Japan, China, etc. 
> It would be better to refer to it as a Korean piano, which a 
> Schaeffer Piano is. The underlying reason why the polyester cracked 
> is because they did not use a resin surfacer sheet on top of the 
> wood. Yamaha does and as a result this type of damage is almost 
> unheard of on a Yamaha. We have seen it on other pianos, including 
> Boston pianos which lack the resin surfacer sheet.
> 

Thank-you for pointing this out.  I have seen this problem on a number of 
Asian pianos and 1960s European pianos and never new the cause other than the 
wood moving underneath the finish.  I have seen it on an early Kawai, but 
your right, I cannot remember seeing it on a Yamaha.  

Andrew Remillard

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