Speaking of small Yamaha grands, is it all the G models that have a problem, with stability and/or scaling? I seem to recollect a fix, that necessitated changing some plain wire to wound. There seems to be a lot of G models, GA, GM, 1's and 2's etc. Does anyone know which specific model had the problem, and is it still being produced. John Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 10:28 AM Subject: [pianotech] Best Dinky Cheap Yamaha Grand yet Hi folks... Since I lambasted a little Kawai piano a few days back I ran into another what appeared at first glance to be a suspect little feller... this time it was a Yamaha GP-1... really small thing. First one of these I've bumped into over here. Sat down thinking it probably would have an ok treble but just awful bass and was very pleasantly surprised. Make no mistake about it the short bass strings are a detriment.... but given the shortness of the scale and the low cost of the instrument I was... well quite happy with the thing. Easy to tune... no inharmonicity or para problems to speak of... and the bass while a bit tinny was by no means ugly at all. Quite ok indeed. This was priced in the neighborhood of Petrof grands just a tad bit longer here.... so that makes them just about as cheap as we get here in Bergen. Cheers RicB
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