Yamaha GH-1

[ed440@mindspring.com]

Alan-

If you really want the best wheel, you probably do have to invent it yourself.  Manufacturers design to meet price points, which is, well, a different kind of wheel.  I wonder why Brian isn't with Yamaha any longer.

If you measure the scale on the GH-1, and enter it into your scaling program, you will get a very clear picture of the problem.

I think the address for Wapin is www.wapin.com.
My opinion is that Wapin would be worth doing if you were planning a full restringing of the piano. Not everyone agrees with this opinion.  Since I'm on vacation, that's enough said!

Let us know what you do and how it turns out.

Ed S.

-------Original Message-------
From: Alan McCoy <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu>
Sent: 05/16/03 04:55 PM
To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
Subject: RE: Yamaha GH-1

> 
> Thanks to everyone who responded. First call I made was to Bill Brandom at
Yamaha. They don't have a ready-made scale fix for this piano. He said the
various things they tried "didn't work." I have Pscale and I might end up
doing the rescaling myself, I was hoping to avoid reinventing the wheel
tho.
I'll contact Brian de Tar first though as he was mentioned by several of
you. I'll keep you posted on this if I get a good solution.

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
> Fred Sturm
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 6:49 AM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: Re: Yamaha GH-1
>
>
> Brian DeTar wrote about that on Pianotech a few years back. And
> also talked
> about it during a one day seminar he did for us here in New Mexico
around
> the same time. Said he talked to the Yamaha folks about it, and
> they wanted
> the GH-1 to sound bad as a selling up point for the G series. A couple
> G-1's I service, rather old, have a pretty nice scale.  They were
> predecessors to GH-1's. Anyway, Brian probably has spec's already worked
> out for those bass strings in the tenor.
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> University of New Mexico
>
> --On Thursday, May 15, 2003 3:08 PM -0700 Alan McCoy
> <amccoy@mail.ewu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > We have a GH-1 here that I would like to modify, or at least explore
the
> > possibility of changing the low tenor string scale in an attempt to
get
> > some decent tone and be capable of being tuned.
> >
> > Don't laugh. I'm trying to be serious here.
> >
> > Anyone have any experience with this problem and possible solutions.
> >
> > Other than a catapult, that is.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Alan
> >
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