[CAUT] P22 scale

[Ron Nossaman]

> Several years back, I called Yamaha with a broken bass string  request, 
> and the rep and I got to chatting about that I'd replaced  this same 
> bass string on a number of P22s which was breaking at the  coil where 
> sharp angle from pin to capo made the wire jump the coil -  although he 
> debated with me that was why, and indicated this was not  even the 
> string with the highest incidence of breakage - also not  consistent 
> with my experience at the time.  They do indeed keep  records of which 
> bass strings break most often and offered to send me  the "rescaled" 
> strings for those I was replacing often.
> 
> What information of that they will share, I don't know.
> 
> Jeff T


Unless it's changed since I asked a few years back, Yamaha won't 
give you string scale data.
Ron N