It's a good question. My bad. I was trying to stay away from the technical part of it and just borrowed from what Yamaha says. My intention was just to caution the people who are interested in owning a Gray-market Asian piano. But you guys are too sharp to settle for that. Okay, here are more details:
There is 60-80% of water, called inner moisture content (IMC), in fresh lumber. Makers of music instruments have to reduce the IMC to around even below 10%. The term for that process is seasoning, which means the lumber has to go through many seasons, traditionally, before reaching the bench of the instrument maker, or the wood might warp in customers’ houses. In this fast-paced era, it is too costly to many makers. So, the makers have been trying to find ways to reduce the cost. One of the ways is to keep the cost to bare minimum. So, the North America has the harshest climates, the IMC is 6-8%; Europe is next, 10-12%; people in Asia are not as picky as rest of the world, 14-16%.
By now, you guys should be able to fill in the rest of the puzzles.
选择“Disable on www.wenxuecity.com”
选择“don't run on pages on this domain”
