<!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 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Joe, I hate to break = it to you, but I don't think Yamaha is offering this kit any more. I asked about it = when I was down there a couple of months ago, and the person I spoke with said = "nope". </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    If you thought the = GH1 was poorly scaled, wait till you see your first GA1E. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Don't get me wrong, = I love Yamahas, I own two of them, but they have to offer their "price point" = models too. It's just a fact of life, I guess. I did have one person who called = me and said that the low tenor needed work, I went out and it was scaling, not = string leveling, not tuning, not voicing, but SCALE DESIGN. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    I hate it when that happens...........</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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=joegarrett@earthlink.net href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">Joseph Garrett</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 02, 2002 = 4:39 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Robert Goodale re. = GH-1</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Robert,<BR>There is a good fix for that piano. It is = available from Yamaha. I did the<BR>"Re-scale" for them many years ago. They = requested that I not talk about the<BR>problem, but the word got out anyway. = (Not from me!) It is a common fix, now<BR>days, and it certainly can make the = "break" a whole lot better.<BR>One of the main problems with doing the = alteration, is that the piano<BR>doesn't have braces and is really squirrelly when = you take the strings off<BR>in that area. The ones I've done, jumped up 20-30 = cents sharp (!) at A=440.<BR>Once I got the new bi-chord strings on and in = tune, the darn thing went<BR>right back to being on! The more current models, = they have added bracing and<BR>the newer scaling.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>