Dear All:
CNN Dateline: Chicago: Move over Mrs. Oleary's Cow!
Today Chicago is in ruins. A fire the size and scale of which hasn't been seen since the uncontented bovine of Mrs. Oleary kicked over the non-UL approved lamp in her barn, was allegly started during a concert featuring a grey market Disklavier piano that had been programmed to play Sibelius' Tulen synty (The Origin of Fire), op.32.
Fire investigators have traced the ignition point to the 10-minute work which begins in darkness, portraying the absence of the sun, moon and fire, which have been stolen by the Mistress of Pohjola. Sucipicion abounds that the the peice was written for the Finnish market and had not been properly vetted for a "location so close to the Magic Mile here in the USA". "Finland is much less congested and it is also colder with much more ice", stated noted musicollogist Freddy Fender.
Arson investigators were struck that the only thing thing the survived the conflageration was 16 pair aircraft quality data cable that was thought to be part of a recent repair to the concert piano.
Howard Dean was quoted as saying that "as a Doctor I have seen this before and it is not surprising that music could cause such devastasion, as anyone who watch the Superbowl halftime would attest".
Having all together too much fun with logic
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Beigel
Sent: Feb 11, 2004 3:53 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Anyone Knows?
Another factor I did not mention is that not all
Disklaviers have UL approval. DKVs sold in the US must
have this. If someone in suit-happy USA has a model of
Disklavier they bought made for a non-US market, and
Yamaha of US sells them a part; it catches fire and
burns their house down, or their kid gets an electric
shock biting on the wires or whatever, then the stage
has been set for a product liablility lawsuit.
While it is true that standarized parts are cheaper to
use, electricity is not the same all over the world.
It could very well be cheaper to make parts that don't
use 110 volts electricity. How would you know whether
or not the electronics of something not made for US
current would have the necessary converters built-in,
or would you risk blowing every circuit? If that
happened, would you not go after the people who sold
you the wrong part?
I think product liability is at the very heart of this
matter. Americans sue more than anyone else in the
world. It costs us big to have those attitudes as you
can see in the high cost of health care. It seems to
me that Yamaha of America , a separate corporation from
Yamaha of Japan, would not be liable for a Disklavier
that caught fire in Japan that was purchased in Japan
for the Japanese market. If someone were to bring that
same piano to the US and sell it to an American, and it
needed a cable to get it working again, and Yamaha of
America sold such a cable to the American buyer, and
unknown to them there was something nonstandard in the
unit and it was not UL approved, and the cable didn't
work right and blew every circuit the moment it was
plugged in ..... just who do you think the American
would go after???
Come on guys, the warnings are out there! DO NOT buy a
product you can't get parts for - especially when you
are told in advance that this will happen.
The various Yamaha corporations service what they sell.
Local dealers who pay local sales taxes service what
they sell also. But does that stop people from buying
in a different market just to get the cheapest price?
Apparently not.
Carol Beigel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. O'Connor"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Anyone Knows?
> Dear All:
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> Horse Hockey!
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> The likelihood that the actual cable is different in
different markets is remote. Most companies subscribe
to quality and cost programs that benefit from greater
numbers for each discrete part. My experience selling
for Hitachi as a case in point.
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> Much more likely is a "marketing strategy" that
Yamaha does not want to support a piano that is
purchased outside of the feudal markets that have been
laid down by corporate dictum.
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> When we bought our Disklavier "used" the local Yamaha
dealer suggested that I would not be able to have
Yamaha service...he was argumentative and
grandstanding...and I believe that this is a strategy
to intimidate the customer to only buy from the local
dealer. When challenged he recanted and acknowledged
that they would indeed service the USA sold and
delivered serial number.
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> Someday Yamaha will wake up to the fact that they
have an outstanding product that should be supported
with great aplomb no matter where the piano sits or
from whom it was acquired. The dealers will then be
able to focus in on great service and support which
will make their sales flourish.
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> And opinion of one.
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> Cheers
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> Dan
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