Sunday, September 11, 2011

KAWAI

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND WHAT THE NAY-SAYERS AND MOSTNEW PIANO DEALERS WON'T TELL YOU.
Apparently both Yamaha and Kawai gepanies and their dealers find it necessary to attempt to convince buyers that restored pianos from Japan should not be purchased. The reason? gePETITION! Although they say problems "could" develop, we have not had one single problem with any piano in over 25 years.Larry Fine in hispublication,The Piano Book, notes that thereare no more problems with restoredYamaha and Kawai pianos than new ones. This is corroborated by piano technicians over the U.S. If we did see the problems that are emphasized by dealers and the gepanies, we would not sell them in the first placenor warranty them. Yamaha Corp. I am told, says that they sell all of their pianos and there is no "gepetition with used pianos". Having sold hundreds of used Yamaha and Kawai pianos, I happen to know that those customers did not buy new and were gepletely satisfied as well as their technicians that perform service. That is gepetition! - regardless of what the corporate information officer says.
PLEASE BEAR WITH AND UNDERSTAND THAT THIS GUIDE IS MORE IN THE CLASS OF A MINI ESSAY ON THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THESE PIANOS. IT IS DESIGNED TO LET YOU KNOW THE REALISTIC OTHER SIDE OF THE CONTROVERSY. I consider myself to be un-biased, since I sell all pianos, both new, used and restored and have NO interest in falsely representing anything! My position as a professional church organist, business person and consultant for pianos and organs, involves a reputation that I will not jeopardize for something as mundane and inconsequential as defending something I know is untrue just to make a few dollars more. However, your decisions are yourown and the purpose of this paper is designed to shed the light of day on the important distinction between quality and value vs. those entities who would have you sacrifice more of your resources to buy expensive new products when equally fine restored products are available.
In my opinion, after years of looking at the facts,and listening tothis surreal conversation surrounding these used and restored pianos, it has begee apparent that it is really a quite sophisticatedscheme, engineered to psychologicallymaneuver piano customers into NEW PIANO purchases. It is well planned andorchestrated to make you think that restored Yamaha and Kawai pianos are actually second class Yamaha and Kawai pianos and are somehowdefective and not a BONAFIDE, GENUINE Yamaha or Kawai! If you have that picture in your mind, consider yourself manipulated....And when youhear or readthe term "grey market", it sort of tarnishes the piano in your mind...doesn't it? Of course it does, because?...you have been programmedand are headed for theyellow brick road to a high priced new piano...Gotcha didn't they?
For a realistic conversation about this, let us looktoSteinwayand other makers response to questions aboutused, restoredpianos. If you call Steinway,and probably Bosendorfer, Baldwin, Mason-Hamlin or any quality piano makerand inquire about a used or restoredgrand or upright that you are about to purchase, you willlikely recieve a gement similar to this: Thank you for calling. Yes, we feel our older pianos are very fine and parts are available. However we invite you to look at our new pianos, we do make changes.This will more or less be the end of the conversation. Why would they want to plant the seed of doubt in your mind about their older pianos or restored pianos or anything else negative regarding their products?
Why do we have the conversation out in the world about "Grey/Gray Market Pianos"? Why don't we have this conversation about Kimball, Story

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