Yamaha GH-1

[Mary Smith]

Interesting, Allan. Good to know improvement is possible and I'll talk to 
you more in depth and to James Arledge about it too, if I ever have an 
interested customer. If you have more info that you have time to email to 
the list, it might be of general interest.

Mary Smith, RPT
University of Texas at Austin (since you were wondering)

At 07:15 PM 7/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>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
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