poor quality yamahas?

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Tom,
                Sounds suspicious to me. Stringing is one of Yamaha's 
strong suits. It may be worth checking the ser# with Yamaha USA to see if 
it's one of those Grey market refurbished pianos.
Regards Roger

At 08:24 AM 12/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I've been tuning two Yamahas for a couple of years now, and I started to
>notice a couple of things which surprise me.  The grand, about a 7 footer,
>has string coils which are completely inconsistent.  Some tuning pins have 4
>coils around them, others have one or two, many are on angles.  It doesn't
>appear to have been restrung, and the strings with poor or few coils look no
>newer than their neighbors with three or four coils.
>
>The console has bichords which have great variation in their wrapped lengths.
>  The left bichord may have an inch of naked steel by the agraffe and the
>right 1/4".  This makes for a poor unison.  Again, it doesn't appear to have
>been restrung, nor do the mismatches look like replacement strings because
>they both are the same in shininess, dullness.
>
>These pianos both date back to the 70s.  Did Yamaha improve their quality
>control at some point?  Were earlier Yamahas plagued with shoddy workmanship
>as apparently exhibited by these two examples?
>
>Or is there another explanation?
>
>Tom S
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