Yamaha Grand GH-1

[Ron Nossaman]

> HI folks,
> I am looking for some info on the Yamaha Grand GH-1....have experienced 
> problems in tuning stability and was wondering if it was a common 
> problem with this particular model.
> George

No, it's not a common problem with that model - it's 
universal. It's scaling. The low tenor string tension and 
corresponding break% is way too low, and the GA-1 that 
replaced it seemed to be even worse, if that's possible. Just 
a poor design for making music. I've done conversions on a 
couple of these, adding a couple of unisons of wrapped strings 
to the low tenor. It makes the problem detectably less bad, 
but I sure wouldn't call it a fix.
Ron N