From Piannaman@aol.com
In a message dated 2/26/05 8:17:13 PM Pacific Standard Time,
kswafford@earthlink.net writes:
All this talk of rescaling the Yamaha GH1 reminded me that I've been
meaning to mention a recent experience with a new Kawai GM-10, which I
guess is their 5 foot nothin' grand.
I tune many small Yamahas -- C1, G1, GH1, GP1, GC1 and now GE1. OK, so
the C1 and the GC1 are OK. As for the rest, the less said the better.
I tuned a Kawai GM-10 a few weeks ago. It was lovely. Absolutely
lovely. Case, action, scale, full sostenuto, beautiful refined tone,
all lovely, and tuned OK too. With this piano out there, I don't see
much reason to be rescaling small Yamahas...
Kent,
I tune quite a few of these. I think Kawai did a nice job of making a small
piano sound pretty good. You can actually tune the notes near the
bass/treble strut.
On the other hand, I've had customers complain about certain notes at the
break on these, too. They are usually people who expect the piano to sound
like a piano that cost 3 times as much.
To my ear, this piano sounds leaps and bounds better than the pocket Yamahas
I've tuned.
Dave Stahl