<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mike,<div><br></div><div>I haven't had loose tuning pin issues on the GA1, but I can tell you it has the worst scale and tuning issues I have ever comes across.<div><br></div><div>I tune quite a few of them, but there is one tune for a Church (I can't believe a dealer would sell this piano to a church), that gets tuned every 3 months. The tenor break is always at least ±15 cents.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the Kawai GM-2 (small, inexpensive piano), is one of the most stable pianos that I tune. Go figure.</div><div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Al -</span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; ">High Point, NC</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Michael Magness wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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>
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<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>
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<div>Mike <br clear="all"><br>-- <br> <br><span>I think we are a product of all our experiences.</span> <br><span><a 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 href="http://www.ifixpianos.com/" target="_blank">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com" target="_blank">mike@ifixpianos.com</a><br>
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