Silent Series

[Larry Fisher]

>One of my customers wants the Yamaha Silent Sytem installed in her
>Grotrian-Steinweg upright.

>I have tried Yamaha Nederland, but  they don't want to help me. I don't
>understand why.

The Yamaha Silent Series isn't available as an after market or retrofit.  It
comes factory installed only and only on Yamaha products.

>The only things she can do seem to be :
>- - Buy a new Yamaha Silent-piano or Bechstein piano.  She doesn't want to
>give up her Grotrian, and she is right.
>- - Install a MRS Quiet Time GT-90 or GT-360 system.     Which are good but
>not as good as the Yamaha Silent.

Tell me more.  Why do you find the Silent series better than the QuietTime??
In this particular case, it's your only option, that I'm aware of.

Silent Series pianos stop the hammer at 10mm from the string (let off) with
or without the silent feature engaged.  QT is 3-5mm.

Silent Series pianos offer one voice unless you add a tone module.  The one
voice is a very nice sounding piano (synthesized).  QT offers 127 standard
General MIDI plus 16 presets, reverb, pan, split, layering, multi channel
(16 I think), transpose, velocity variants, and a host of other features.

I'm not in sales, and I don't particularily care which system you think is
best, however, with the overwhelming extra features to choose from with QT,
why do you think SS is better??

Lar




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