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4:09 PM, Alan Barnard wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN =
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white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Anything special I =
should be looking for? Does this piano have low tenor/low tension =
problems like the GA-1? (And if so, do I tell the customer so they won't =
blame me when it sounds like crap in three =
months?)</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>For one thing they changed =
the plain steel at the end of the tenor for 3(?) notes of bi-chord. You =
know, the kind thing any of us would have done if they'd asked us to fix =
the GA-1. I've only seen one on a dealer's floor briefly (back in =
NOV) and haven't tuned it (nor was the tuning on that piano fresh enough =
to allow me to judge the inharmonicity at that end of the bridge). But =
my first thought was the Yamaha was testing their market again, seeing =
if those people who go for a 4-1/2' polyester cutie could tell the =
difference between a good string scale and a bad one.</DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You'd be doing us a public =
service, Alan, if you measured and posted the string scale in that =
bottom tenor octave.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" =
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margin-left: 0px; ">Bill Ballard RPT</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; =
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P.T.G.</DIV><DIV><A =
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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"So come on =
down, for the best in fidelity" </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; =
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...........AM radio spot for the local Radio Shack store. </DIV><DIV =
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margin-left: 0px; ">(Thank you, I'll take a space between the last two =
words.)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
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