<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD><TITLE>HTML Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE>P { MARGIN: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>How 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?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Marshall Gisondi</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=tune4u@earthlink.net href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">Alan Barnard</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net, Pianotech List">ilvey@sbcglobal.net, Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 25, 2006 10:31 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Yamaha GB1</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>