Yamaha electric grand of mid 70's to mid 80's origin

[Mark Story]

Neither. It uses a compression-type (piezoelectric) pickup in place of the
bridge, like the old Baldwin electro.

Mark Story, RPT
Eastern Washington University
mstory@ewu.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Thomas N (MARTITN5) <MARTITN5@Juniata.Edu>
To: 'pianotech@ptg.org' <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Yamaha electric grand of mid 70's to mid 80's origin


>>Is this the one with regular piano hammers,  bichords instead of
trichords,
>pinblock,  cast iron plate, etc....but no soundboard, using pickups
instead?
>
> I don't think this has a soundboard (but I have been told it isn't
>inaudible without being amped :-\ )and I'm not sure if it uses microphone
>type pickups or guitar style (I have a feeling it is more like a guitar
>pickup)