<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD><TITLE>HTML Message</TITLE> <STYLE></STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2838" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"> <DIV> <DIV>1. 8K is a good price.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2. It is virtually identical to the GA-1 which is a real dog/pig/Yamahahaha BUT</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ilvey@sbcglobal.net href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">David Ilvedson</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A>;<A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 03/25/2006 6:47:27 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Yamaha GB1</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2>List,<BR><BR>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...<BR>I haven't seen this model...<BR><BR>Thanks...<BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, California<BR><BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>