Disklavier

I think a lot of this comes from MISUNDERSTANDING the Yamaha
position paper on this.  The document does NOT say that the North
American pianos TODAY are different than the Asian pianos TODAY.

It says that when Yamaha was making Pianos in the 60's for the Asia
market they had problems with ones imported into the US that lead
to Yamaha developing new drying kilns.

The official line now is "When asked about one of these pianos we can
not provide infomration other than it was not made for this market" and
that parts can be difficult to obtain (a large part of which is that YCA
won't sell them to you).

The issue of a modern built for the Asian market piano compared to
a modern US piano is mostly danced around by the corporate party
line.