Yamaha GB-1 What?

[william ballard]

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On Jan 26, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Alan Barnard wrote:
> Anything special I should be looking for? Does this piano have low  
> tenor/low tension problems like the GA-1? (And if so, do I tell the  
> customer so they won't blame me when it sounds like crap in three  
> months?)

For one thing they changed the plain steel at the end of the tenor  
for 3(?) notes of bi-chord. You know, the kind thing any of us would  
have done if they'd asked us to fix the GA-1.  I've only seen one on  
a dealer's floor briefly (back in NOV) and haven't tuned it (nor was  
the tuning on that piano fresh enough to allow me to judge the  
inharmonicity at that end of the bridge). But my first thought was  
the Yamaha was testing their market again, seeing if those people who  
go for a 4-1/2' polyester cutie could tell the difference between a  
good string scale and a bad one.

You'd be doing us a public service, Alan, if you measured and posted  
the string scale in that bottom tenor octave.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.
wbps@vermontel.net

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