Normal product flow is gone and has been gone for awhile and it just is not coming back anytime soon. You take all those backorders from each major piano dealer in the US and add all of that up and then combine it with dealer orders from piano dealers in other countries and then the factories have to produce all those pianos plus reserve supplies just to try to have some "in stock" for awhile, and then you try to get that product made with parts and supply shortages, manpower shortages, logistics problems, especially loading and unloading times at international and national harbors and ports, and then getting all that product over to the national warehouses and then getting truckers (there re not enough drivers these days) to take that product to the dealers. It is now not unusual for some individual piano stores to have 100 to 500 backordered digital pianos on orders they have received from their customers up to 9 months ago. That has definitely not happened.ģ to 6 months ago digital piano companies really did think they would have much higher levels of product by now.but they don't.none of them do. Covid has changed and now we have a new and more contagious variant where just 6 months ago we thought things were getting a handle on things and we would be getting back to near normal by this time. What we thought we knew 6 months ago is no longer true today. The digital piano manufacturers are at the mercy of the parts companies such as chip makers, circuit board makers, wood suppliers and those parts have become difficult to get.ĭemand for product in the US (especially in the digital piano industry) is at an all time high (more people are at home and for longer periods of time) and costs are going up, but production, shipping, and other related things are slowing down and in some cases (like chip makers) nearly at a standstill.all because of the pandemic and the long term ripple effect it continues to cause around the world. Those shippers can only move so fast, people can only work so hard, people are still dying all over the world from covid related issues, the transportation industry is at the mercy of the drivers and dockworkers who load and unload product at the docks (there are shortages of manpower and some are actually going on strike now). When it comes to shipping then the factories only know what they hear from their shippers (trucks, ships, boats, trains, etc). Those people only know what they are told by their overseas factories. The local dealers only know what they are told by their superiors, those superiors only know what they are told by the the brand headquarters in the US. They are suffering the same issues as the other digital piano brands such as Yamaha, Kawai, Casio, Korg, and the others. It is unfortunate for all of us looking for accurate information on "where is my order?" has seen it become so challenging over the last year.
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