Yamaha GB1

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HTML MessageHow does the g1 differ from the ga1 or gb1? I told our pastor I'd tune our yamaha G1 as a practice tuning to help them out as they cannot aford to have it tuned.  Are there any specifics I need to watch out for while tuning it that might differ from other pianos, ie. how well does it stay at pitch or must I raise it so it will fall to correct pitch as in some pianos? or is just like any other piano in terms of tuning it?
Marshall Gisondi
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alan Barnard 
  To: ilvey at sbcglobal.net, Pianotech List 
  Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 10:31 PM
  Subject: RE: Yamaha GB1


  1. 8K is a good price.

  2. It is virtually identical to the GA-1 which is a real dog/pig/Yamahahaha BUT

  3. It has six pairs of wound bichords on the low end of the tenor bridge instead of the too-heavy, too-slack plain wire trichords that the GA-1 has. This is the area of the GA-1 that was hard to tune, sounded not so hot, and was very reactive to change, i.e., unstable.

  I tuned one GB-1 as a first in-home tuning and I tune a couple of the "A"s. I liked tuning the "B" much better and thought it had a pretty sweet tone, considering size, Asian hammers, etc. I haven't been back yet so can't speak to the stability, but I think it will be much better.

  All in all, I think the GB-1 is just fixing the big oops in the GA-1 scale, but I was impressed with the difference.

  Alan Barnard
  Salem, Missouri


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: David Ilvedson 
    To: caut at ptg.org;pianotech at ptg.org
    Sent: 03/25/2006 6:47:27 PM 
    Subject: Yamaha GB1


    List,

    I have a customer looking for a grand.   She has her eyes on a 2005 Yamaha GB1...made in Indonesia....any comments on this piano.   Their asking $8000...
    I haven't seen this model...

    Thanks...
    David Ilvedson, RPT
    Pacifica, California


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