[pianotech] U1 - stained bass strings

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Tue Oct 20 16:51:08 MDT 2009


Rob Mitchell wrote:
> I've been working with Yamaha on this, but the best we've come up with 
> is that some sort of atmospheric contaminant is attacking the strings.  
> Thought I would try this group to see if anyone has seen the problem. 
> This is on a 4 year old Yamaha U1. 

I tuned this one today, an older Yamaha. Same stuff. It's 
contact contamination, not atmospheric. I see it fairly often 
in Yamaha verticals, and it doesn't seem to hurt a thing. 
Maybe the guy installing the dampers sneezed...
Ron N
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