Used Yamahas

[Farrell]

I service MANY VERY NICE grey market Yamahas in my area. Of course, we don't have the dry winter environments that more northern areas have.

IMHO, Yamaha dicourages because they would rather see you buy a new piano!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Goodale" <rrg@unlv.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: Used Yamahas


> Let me guess...
> Two pedal lyre, plain ebony case, near zero board crown.  Look up "Gray
> Market Pianos" in the archives and you will learn all you need to know about
> how fast to run away from them.  Even Yamaha discourages.  See their own web
> page:
> http://www.yamaha.com/pianoserials/index.htm
> 
> Scroll on down to the text and read.  Been there. Done that. Never again.
> 
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> Las Vegas, NV
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Greetings,
> >    Just finished looking at a slew of used Yamaha C-3 grands.  Priced
> about
> > $19,000.  They were all 10 years old and the actions were in pretty good
> > shape.  All the boards showed a little bridge roll and just barely enough
> > crown to measure.
> >    One  eight year old C-7 was in nice shape, priced at $24,000.
> >    All pianos are ebony and all the pinblocks felt good.
> >     These all seem about 15% too high, but I may be out of the loop as far
> as
> > what things are selling for in this brand.  Anybody got thoughts or recent
> > experience as to what the market for them really is?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ed Foote RPT
> 
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