poor quality yamahas?

[David Ilvedson]

The only clue missing is the other technician's business card under 
the keyframe.,,;-]

David I.
On 10 Dec 2002 at 8:24, Tvak@aol.com wrote:

> I've been tuning two Yamahas for a couple of years now, and I started
> to notice a couple of things which surprise me.  The grand, about a 7
> footer, has string coils which are completely inconsistent.  Some
> tuning pins have 4 coils around them, others have one or two, many are
> on angles.  It doesn't appear to have been restrung, and the strings
> with poor or few coils look no newer than their neighbors with three
> or four coils.
> 
> The console has bichords which have great variation in their wrapped
> lengths. 
>  The left bichord may have an inch of naked steel by the agraffe and
>  the 
> right 1/4".  This makes for a poor unison.  Again, it doesn't appear
> to have been restrung, nor do the mismatches look like replacement
> strings because they both are the same in shininess, dullness.
> 
> These pianos both date back to the 70s.  Did Yamaha improve their
> quality control at some point?  Were earlier Yamahas plagued with
> shoddy workmanship as apparently exhibited by these two examples?
> 
> Or is there another explanation?
> 
> Tom S
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