[CAUT] uprights

Dan Reed pianoarts at tx.rr.com
Fri Sep 5 20:13:48 MDT 2008


Is the U5 in the 'X' series?  I like the X back 52"Yamaha series... 
more teeth than the U 1-2-3 -series...Heavier back bracing, heavier 
Capo...a bit different scale?


Dan

Dallas


On Sep 5, 2008, at 7:57 PM, David Love wrote:

> You can buy 2 (maybe 3) Yamaha U5s for the price of one K52.  Better 
> and cleaner sounding, easier to tune and service, easier to turn over 
> should you decide to go that route.  It’s a no brainer for me.  I find 
> the 1098’s wirey sounding full of falseness, difficult and unrewarding 
> to tune.  Bostons I find also hard to tune (too enamored of tight 
> tuning pins), cold and dry sounding. 
>  
>
> David Love
>  davidlovepianos at comcast.net
>  www.davidlovepianos.com
> List,
>  
> My school is interested in a large purchase of pianos...10 or more.   
> They are talking with Steinway.   The Boston would be included in the 
> upright part of the purchase or the K52.   Opinions on the bigger 
> Boston uprights and the K52.   Obviously, you can probably get 2 
> Bostons for the K52, but is the K52 a decent piano these days?  
>  
> David Ilvedson, RPT
>  Pacifica, CA 94044
>  
>
> Doug Wood
> School of Music
> University of Washington
>  
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