<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Dean May <<a href="mailto:deanmay@pianorebuilders.com">deanmay@pianorebuilders.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> <div style="WORD-WRAP:break-word" lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"> <div> As a former piano dealer, Al, I can tell you exactly why that is: It’s not just the dealer, but the customer is stupid and eagerly wants the perception of buying a good piano for the least money. I was trying to get a church to get a nice 6’1 Young Chang Pramberger. Lost the sale to my competitor who sold them a DH Baldwin (made by Samick), smaller piano, for more money. The elder at the church said they wanted to get a better quality piano so they went with the “Baldwin.” <div class="im"> <div> Dean Dean W May <a href="tel:%28812%29%20235-5272" target="_blank" value="+18122355272">(812) 235-5272</a> voice and text PianoRebuilders.com (888) DEAN-MAY Terre Haute IN 47802 Give us a LIKE on Facebook! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/PianoRebuilderscom/137780082943148" target="_blank">Go to PianoRebuilders.com</a> </div></div> <div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> From: <a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] On Behalf Of Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:48 PM <div class="im"> To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Yamaha GA1 Barely 10 years old Has Loose TuningPins- 2nd owner</div> </div> Mark, <div> <div class="h5"> <div> <div> I know you were joking, but my point was, the GA1 is just to small a piano to fill a large church and much to reactive to temperature and humidity changes. You know how churches maintain their environment. It's not a good piano for anyone, but does a lot worse in a church environment. <div> </div> <div> There are to many dealers who have no interested in helping a customer select the proper piano for their needs. It's just about the sale. Unfortunately, they became a customer after they purchased the piano. I wasn't there to help them make a proper selection and they are paying for that better piano with more frequent tunings. <div> <div> <div> Al -</div> <div> High Point, NC </div> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div> On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Mark Dierauf wrote:</div> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> So the Church should get special treatment but it's ok for their non-clerical brethren to get the shaft? (<g> couldn't resist!) - Mark On 2:59 PM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote: Mike, <div> </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> </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> </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> <div> Al -</div> <div> <div> High Point, NC </div></div></div></div> </div></div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div> <div> I checked the serial number at yamaha corp, it is NOT gray market, I did notice the HUGE difference at the crossover from bass to tenor tonally but with the loose pins it wasdifficult to notice any tuning problems.</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks to all for your advice/knowledge</div> <div> </div> <div>Merry Christmas</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike -- I think we are a product of all our experiences. <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/sanfordiw283095.html" target="_blank">Sanford I. Weill</a> Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 <a href="http://www.ifixpianos.com/" target="_blank">www.IFixPianos.com</a> email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com" target="_blank">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>