I second that........It makes you wonder how a company would tarnish their reputation by selling a piano like that! Al G -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:11 AM To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Yamaha GH1 tenor instability > >> Has anyone else been as frustrated as I am trying to keep the tenor >> octave of the Yamaha GH1 in tune? Even if I pitch raise and >> over-pull, by the end of the tuning, that section WILL NOT HOLD! The >> tuning pins are not loose in the block but I'm still thinking that my >> next step might be to tap the tuning pins down into the pin block >> along with tapping the strings down at their bearing points. Any >> suggestions? Is this a structural problem with this model?? > > It's a design, specifically a scaling problem. Don't drive tuning pins, > and don't seat strings. That won't improve a thing. This model isn't > tunable, and will remain untunable whatever you try as a field repair. > Ron N > >
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