Regarding the comment below from rondisklavier:
It is true that in a large country like the US, the average humidity various from location to location. The key point, however, is this: No matter where you go in the US and Canada, in all likelihood, the indoor environment has central heating and/or air conditioning that is active for a significant portion of the year. Both central heating and air conditioning dry out the interior air. In order to stand up to this kind of stress, the wood needs to be dried to a low moisture content.
The outdoor humidity is irrelevant.
Regards,
PianoBench
On Aug 28, 2007, at 3:25 PM, rondisklavier wrote:
--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Carol Beigel" ..>
wrote:
> For instance, it is cheaper to manufacture a piano for the Asian
market
> because the wood does not need to to kiln dried to 5% moisture
content to
Carol,
Asia is much bigger than America. There is not only one climate in
Asia. How about people in Hawaii? Does Yamaha make a special piano for
people in Hawaii or people in Texas? Your argument just does not make
sense and without base. And about the connectors, Yamaha hires cheap
labor in many places, do you think that they expect these low paid
laborers to do soldering? I did work for a month in Yamaha factory,
everything is well planned, everything just needs to be connected...