Yes, those early P202's did have troubles in the bass. Remember, it was just after they took over the Everett factory. After breaking two bass strings while tuning three very lightly used P202's at a school, I looked, and saw that the string approached the coil at a bad angle, so that it was trying to ride up where the coil first started, especially for the lowest row of pins. This was before they sent out rescaled strings, but they certainly got my attention by sending me a complete set of bass strings, gratis. Superb service -- if only the design had been as good as the service reps! It all seemed so needless -- if they could just have drilled the tuning pin holes so the pins leaned back at an angle, I doubt that they would have broken any wire to speak of. Susan At 11:07 AM 2/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Lance wrote: > >Susan, my biggest string breaker was Macedonia Baptist Church with a Yamaha > >P-202 also. Yamaha/dealer paid me to replace the bass strings with rescaled > >strings with heavier core wire. They haven't broken any since. > >Susan, Lance, >My biggest string breaker was also a Yamaha P202. Similar Baptist Church >setting. > >Yamaha told me to use the different scale bass strings as well, and sent >them to me. Apparently, they keep records of frequency of string breakage >for each string for each model. The service rep could tell me which bass >strings had the highest occurrence of breakage. >Jeff > > >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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