Restringing GM Yamahas

[jolly roger]

Hi Bill,
           I have restrung several of these GM  Yamaha's with 2/0 pins,
(remember Yamaha has metric pins)  and they are standing up fine.  These
pianos were in a dry climate for a full year or more before repinning.
Regards Roger





At 11:46 PM 9/20/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm about to restring a 1975(?) Yamaha C7E, you know one of the 
>recent japanese emigres. Evrything is orginal and after two VT 
>winters is holding together quite nicely. The pinblock grip during 
>the summer is  solid, and in the dead of winter is "workably" loose. 
>(The board has a DC, but the room is too large to humidify.) Does 
>anyone have any experience with the expected life of such a block 
>restrung with 3/0 x 2-1/2" pins? I'd go for that rather than 4/0 x 
>2-3/8,  the 3/0x2-1/2 size would spread out the impact of the o'sized 
>pins out through a longer hole.
>
>Does anyone have any long-term experience with these block (you now, 
>from the old country) especially when jumping up a pin size or two?
>
>Muchos Thanquos
>
>PS attached is a very informative look, broadcast over NPR recently, 
>into the eastern Islamic world, notably Afghanistan and Pakistan. 
>Both countries were created in the first years after WWII, the map 
>having been divided in such a way as to insure conflict as a 
>stabilising system. The partitioning of Palestine is another example 
>of this style of "nation-building"
>
>Bill Ballard RPT
>NH Chapter, P.T.G.
>
>"Come on, a priest and a rabbi?! I think I've heard this one before"
>     ...........the Punjabi/Irish barkeep in "Keeping the Faith"
>+++++++++++++++++++++
>