Mary, Scott and the list, I recently restrung and rescaled a GH-1 for a customer. By changing the first four unwound trichords to wound bichords we achieved a substantial improvement. James Arledge assisted me on this and he does a great job both of rescaling (he even takes longitudinal mode into account) and winding the strings (his lathe has a tension control to assure even winding.) If you really want to solve the problems, this is the direction I would recommend. Allan Allan L. Gilreath, RPT Berry College - Rome, GA (btw, why don't we get back to identifying our institutional affiliation on this list?) -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Scott Jackson Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 8:21 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: Yamaha GH-1 Alan, did you ever make any progress on this? I have a GH-2 i'd like to work on. Scott Jackson Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan McCoy" <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:38 AM Subject: RE: Yamaha GH-1 | Mary, | | I will be using Pscale on this piano sometime in mid-June. I am guessing | that at least 4 and maybe 6 of the low plain-wire unisons in the low tenor | will be replaced with wound strings. I'll get back with the scaling results | next month. It'll be interesting to run several different what if scenarios. | | Alan McCoy | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of | > Mary Smith | > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 6:33 AM | > To: College and University Technicians | > Subject: Re: Yamaha GH-1 | > | > | > List, | > | > I went out to tune a GH-1 yesterday, and I was mulling over the | > various messages on CAUT regarding these lovely instruments as I was | > working. It seems to me that the real problem area is B2, the first | > note on the tenor bridge. Maybe C3 also, but mostly B2 has these | > weird overtones that I find impossible to tune around. What if only | > the gauge of that note (I guess it would have to be a pair of notes) | > was changed? I mean, it would be great to rescale the whole piano, | > but why not solve the most pressing problem first? Anybody with a | > rescaling program want to take a stab at it? I know it would make | > this customer of mine really happy if I could make that B sound | > better! | > | > Mary | > _______________________________________________ | > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives | > _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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