<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A fine day for tuning - 4 Yamaha = grands. Three C3s and a GH1. Well, three out of four ain't bad - and I'd rather tune a GH1 = than quite a few pianos.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>While tuning up the high treble of the = GH1 I noticed that there was about a half-foot of space between the hammers = and the belly rail - I thought maybe the action wasn't all the way in or = something. Then I noticed that the belly rail is entirely along one line - there is no = offset (widened) section for the high treble! The treble bridge has no undercut = what-so-ever and the forward edge of the bridge is no more that 1/4-inch = from the forward edge of the soundboard panel - that means the soundboard is sandwiched between the bridge and the belly rail. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wonder how efficiently that sucker = vibrates! Could that prominent sharp THUD sound in the high treble when a key = is struck be related to that design "feature"? I had never seen anything = quite like THAT before.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry = Farrell</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>