George,
You are correct about home in the US, Canada etc.
However, you assumption is that people in Asia do not use
airconditioning.Human beings are the same, nobody likes humid
environment. Therefore, the people who bought piano (especilly
Disklavier), they are NOT poor people. They also have central air
conditioner and they do turn on their air conditioner 24/7. As a
result, the environment where those pianos experience is exactly the
same as in US...As dry as in US. Are those pianos cracking? No, they
are not. I had my C5 in Indonesia for years and it did not crack (my
house is 100% air conditionered for 24 hours. How about the pianos
in Yamaha Music Foundation that are in 100% airconditioner
environment for years, do Yamaha Music Foundation in Indonesia needs
to import special pianos for their music schools?
Sorry not to be argumentative, but we do need to know the condition
is Asia, before we assume that those people do not live in an
airconditioner environment. Once again, what you said is correct,
out side wheather has nothing to do. The inside climate is the more
important one.
RS
--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "George F. Litterst"
...> wrote:
>
> Good afternoon, everyone.
>
> 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...
> >
> >
> >
>
Message
Re: [disklavier] Re: gray market disklaviers (was owners manual)
2007-08-28 by Jimmy Lewis
Let me just say dear Sir, that I live in Canada, where the winter are cold and dry. My house will vary from 30% to 80 % humidity
during a year period. I also have central air, in summer the average humidity factor is between 40-50%.
So you can imagine that this kind of variation will really affect a piano. Has to know if there is a marketing effect from Yamaha regarding this,
I have to say that I have received a certificate indicating that my piano was manufacturer from North America climate. As I have travelled accros the continent many times, one thing I am aware is, if you buy any type of wood furniture from a very humid place and bring it back here, it will crack during its first winter, so if Yamaha is using different type of wood, or at least use wood that is dry slow enough to respond to our climate.
That is why I believe Yamaha has made piano for respective country climate. There might be a lot of similarities between some countries but here I would not like to own a piano that was made in India. As for the rest for the electronic parts, this is another story.
Hope this input will help and stop the big debate about cheaper piano, you get what you pay for.
Jimmy
Le 07-08-28 à 17:45, rondisklavier a écrit :
Jimmy L.