Yamaha wire sizes reply

[pianoman]

Yamaha has had several specs for bass strings on the P-202 and P-22's.  A
couple of years ago I restrung the bass on a nearly new P-22 at a local
college because of a string breakage problem.  When I got there for the job
it appeared there had been only one broken string but Yamaha paid me to do
the whole job in restringing.  Tonally the P-22's are my favorite, I like
the way the bass growls.  After I restrung with the new set, a different
spec. set, I didn't nearly like the tone as much as I did before but
evidently the string breakage problem was solved.  At least they didn't
call me back with problems.
I have found that very seldom will Yamaha screw up.  I wish I could say the
same thing about me.
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"I am only as good as my last tuning"

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> From: PIANOSSSSS <PIANOSSSSS@aol.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Yamaha wire sizes
> Date: Saturday, December 13, 1997 7:04 AM
> 
> I just helped another tech  replace an entire set of bass strings on a
Yamaha
> P202.  I neer tuned the piano but my friend Jim said that when he first
tuned
> the piano it was very flat.  He told me exactly but I don't remember. 
I'ts a
> long story but when he got to the bass strings he could not even get them
to
> pitch before they broke.
> 
> When he called Yamaha, they said that they had some problems with the
P202 and
> even though the piano was more than 10 years old they sent us a complete
set
> of strings which were the wrong strings.  
> 
> Jim called Yamaha and when he told them that they sent us the wrong
strings,
> Yamaha had us go to Schaff Piano Supply in Lake Zurich (only a few miles
away)
> and they would order the strings and had them there for pickup.
> 
> For what it's worth
> 
> John LaBorn RPT