[CAUT] comparisons

[Alan McCoy]

Ed,

I think our P22s are holding up better than our Kawai UST-7s so we'll be
going with them for a while. I'll echo Jim though in that they need good
voicing to give decent tone. They tend to be a bit colorless. Mechanically
they are sound.

Alan


-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy at mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627


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> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:05:04 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: [CAUT] comparisons
> 
> Greetings all, 
>     I have been asked to make some recommendations for school practise room
> pianos.  Here at Vanderbilt, we have been using quite a few Yamaha U-3 pianos,
> with good results.  They were purchased some years ago when they had the true
> sostenuto pedals on them.  Now, the only Yamaha uprights with the sos. are too
> expensively priced for us to purchse, so I am considering the others.
>     Our dealer here has suggested the P-22 as the workhorse piano for
> practise rooms, though I certainly would prefer a larger piano.  I  am
> unfamiliar 
> with the T-121 pianos( $ 6,495), but it was offered as an alternative to the
> U-1, 
> ( $7,495).  
>       The Kawai dealer has proposed the K-25 or the K-3 pianos.  I know
> nothing about them, though I have some idea that the K-60 would be a better
> piano.  
> It certainly weighs more, which means something.
> 
>      I figure that other CAUT's might have seen some  of these models in
> action for some time and could give me an idea of how durable they might be.
> 
> On list or off, would anybody care to make some recommendations among these
> models, based on how they hold up?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Ed Foote RPT 
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>