<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 2/26/05 8:17:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, kswafford@earthlink.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fef9b4" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>= All this talk of rescaling the Yamaha GH1 reminded me that I've been <BR>meaning to= mention a recent experience with a new Kawai GM-10, which I <BR>guess is t= heir 5 foot nothin' grand.<BR><BR>I tune many small Yamahas -- C1, G1, GH1, GP1= , GC1 and now GE1. OK, so <BR>the C1 and the GC1 are OK. As for the rest, th= e less said the better.<BR><BR>I tuned a Kawai GM-10 a few weeks ago. It was= lovely. Absolutely <BR>lovely. Case, action, scale, full sostenuto, beauti= ful refined tone, <BR>all lovely, and tuned OK too. With this piano out there,= I don't see <BR>much reason to be rescaling small Yamahas...</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Kent,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I tune quite a few of these.  I think Kawai did a nice j= ob of making a small piano sound pretty good.  You can actually tune = the notes near the bass/treble strut.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On the other hand, I've had customers complain about certain notes at t= he break on these, too.  They are usually people who expect the piano to s= ound like a piano that cost 3 times as much.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>To my ear, this piano sounds leaps and bounds better than the pock= et Yamahas I've tuned.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>