Flat Facts

Avery Todd avery1@houston.rr.com
Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:29:56 -0600


As good/smart as Yamaha usually is, I've NEVER understood why they made 
those in the
first place. It HAD to have been a 'price point' thing! JMHO.

Avery

At 07:01 AM 3/27/05, you wrote:
>Perhaps you haven't yet had the pleasure of meeting a 4'11" Yamaha GA-1, 
>also with plain wire down to B2. Where here in Kansas City the tenor of a 
>GH-1 may move 25 cents more than the rest of the scale, the tenor of a 
>GA-1 will move about 45 cents more than the rest of the scale. IOW, as bad 
>as the GH-1 is, the GA-1 is almost twice as bad. The GA-1 is the only 
>piano model I have ever seriously considered declining to service.
>
>Kent
>
>
>On Mar 26, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Ron Berry wrote:
>
>>Bad scaling makes this worse.  The worst
>>example I can think of is the Yamaha GH-1.  This piano goes radically out
>>when the weather changes and it is because the break is clear down at B2
>>which is very low for such a small piano.
>
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