<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Tuned these two pianos in two consecutive days ...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>New Yamaha GA-1 (yurk): In addition to low treble from hell, the 6th and 7th octaves are just screechers, wild and wooley. On the spectrograph, some of the individual strings have about 8 peaks each!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>70's Kimball console: Entire treble, up to about G7 at least, is clean, and sweet. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't think the patented Thermomezonuclear Soundboard is the reason and I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the Exclusive Harmi-Tone-ExcuseMeWhileIBarf action, BUT this piano does have one of those steel rod inserts for the upper string terminations instead of on the usual bump in the cast iron. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Think that might be part of success in a clean treble? I'm going to be more observant of pianos with and without this and see if it's a trend.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>