Bruce,If indeed your environment is "very kind" you may not have much to worry about. What do I see in Billerica, MA, about 25 miles inland? Soundboards that develop cracks during their first winter stateside. Very low pin torque. One customer bought a Yamaha C5 that was rebuilt by one of the import outfits, in TN or KY I think. Pin torque was monstrous in July just after he bought it; bridges and soundboard developed cracks as soon as the heat came on in the Fall, and pinblock torque took a sudden dive. These pianos were not outfitted with Dampp-Chaser systems, despite my warnings to the proud new owners. Are some of the grey market pianos OK? Yes, but the failure rate is unacceptably high. Patrick Draine On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Bruce Browning - The Piano Tuner < justpianos at our.net.au> wrote: > David, > With respect to the "grey market" pianos, people on this list keep saying > "coming apart", or "falling apart". Where are the specifics, as in my 10 - > 12 years of servicing these in this country I have only seen minor > problems which can easily be rectified, such as well worn key bushings, > and the inevitable hammer butt loops (and aren't these problems common to > locally supplied models as well?). Admittedly the environment I work in is > very kind, but what should we be looking for? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080912/bdaf4eff/attachment.html
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