<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19170"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>The GA1 was a very poor piano from the start. Yamaha went to a GB1 after a short time. Even with a new pinblock, the scale is awful, the lowest notes in tenor are virtually untunable. They should probably be avoided completely.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Michael Gutowski</DIV> <DIV>Chicago</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 12/22/2011 10:25:04 P.M. Central Standard Time, ifixpiano@gmail.com writes:</DIV> <DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>I was called to tune this Yamaha GA1 today the lower half of the bass section tuning pins were very loose, the upper half a little better, lower tenor barely holding, as I moved up the scale from there it got noticebly tighter. It appeared to have been CA'd but not too well or whoever did it started at the treble & ran out by the time he/she got to the bass.</DIV> <DIV>The customer bought it used from a piano "restorer" in Rockford, ILL The piano hadn't been tuned in about a year & moved about 170 miles to it's present location. The customer has a dedicated humidity system that keeps the home humidified to at LEAST 35% today it was 43%, but the piano was roughly 30 to 55c flat bass being the flattest & a few in the very high treble being less than 5c flat. </DIV> <DIV>The customer raised the question, when I told/showed him the loose tuning pins, if the "restorer" had ever tuned the piano to pitch, I replied it was a good question to which I had no answer.</DIV> <DIV>Advice?</DIV> <DIV>Comments?</DIV> <DIV>Anyone ever heard of this in a Yamaha or in this model Yamaha?</DIV> <DIV>Any help appreciated, will call Yamaha after the holidays,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mike <BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>  <BR><SPAN>I think we are a product of all our experiences.</SPAN> <BR><SPAN><A title=http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/sanfordiw283095.html href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/sanfordiw283095.html" target=_blank>Sanford I. Weill</A></SPAN>   <BR><BR>Michael Magness<BR>Magness Piano Service<BR>608-786-4404<BR><A title=http://www.ifixpianos.com/ href="http://www.ifixpianos.com/" target=_blank>www.IFixPianos.com</A><BR>email <A title=mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com" target=_blank>mike@ifixpianos.com</A><BR> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B></FONT> </DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>