GH1B reply

pianoman pianoman@inlink.com
Mon, 2 Mar 1998 07:12:01 -0600


Dear William,
Are you saying the new improved Yamaha scaling comes off worse than the
older scale? 
 Is this progress? 
 Do you know the benefits that the new scale has that overshadows the "bad"
things it does in that area?
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis, MO. USA, Earth
pianoman@inlink.com
"Sometimes it is really good to be pleasantly surprsed without knowing what
you did right.".

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> From: William J Schlipf <wjstuner@juno.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: re:GH1B
> Date: Monday, March 02, 1998 6:51 AM
> 
> I had a problem like this about 6 months ago with a GH1B.  I was in
> contact with Steve Pearson at Yamaha and with members of this list.  I
> was able to satisfy the customer by voicing and damper leveling.  The
> dampers in that area, B, C and C#, lifted off slightly uneven and the
> hammer was striking the damper felt.  It sounded awful!  Depress the
> damper slowly and watch carfully.  
> Kits used to be available from Yamaha, if you rescale.  Drill bits, hitch
> pins, strings included.  This turns the GH1B back to their older GH1
> scale at no charge.
> Bill Schlipf  Bloomington, IL
> wjstuner@juno.com
> 
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