Flat Fact

Ron Nossaman rnossaman@cox.net
Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:44:03 -0600


> I'm with you Kent.  The strangest thing to me about this whole saga is
> the fact that at one time Yamaha added 6 bichord covered strings at the
> end of the long bridge of the GH-1 that made a big improvement, then
> they reverted back to the naked strings on the whole long bridge.  I've
> only tuned one of the models with the covered strings, but it could be
> tuned to normal small grand standards.  Surely those 12 covered strings
> didn't raise the cost that much!
> 
> dp
> 
> David M. Porritt


Yea, why did they do that? The only thing I could figure is that 
they WANTED it to sound as bad as they could (can) make it. Is this 
a forced upgrade through embarrassment marketing technique?
Ron N

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