I agree about the case design on Yamahas; both top & bottom board. I don't agree about P22's. I have had only trouble: tuning instability, bass string breakage, hammer-flange center pins needing recentering and/or tightening frequently, and generally not holding up well to institutional wear and tear. I am in Appalachia and many of our public schools are still coal fired, tough on any instrument, but the P22's fare worse than other pianos. In contrast I have 7 P22's at Frostburg State, in a climate controlled building. Same problems with the P22's. The higher model Yamahas have been great. Good luck and judicious decisions, Nancy Salmon RPT On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:28 AM, wbis290 <wbis290 at aol.com> wrote: > List, > > Can you tell me what experiences you have had with Yamaha T118s? We are > ready to get at least one new piano and are not sure about P22s or T118s. We > have gotten U1s and love them but with the economy the way that it is we > have had the budget cuts that many, if not most, have gotten. We have had > Steinways and found the U1 to be a better instrument. I have also had > experiences with Bostons at another university that I had worked at and was > totally unimpressed with them. We do have Boston grands at ONU and nobody > likes them. We do have two old Yamaha P2Cs at ONU that are 37 years old and > are still going strong even after being used in practice, teaching, and > classroom use. I just needed to install new hammers. It is because of this > durability that we are going with Yamaha. I know that they are not perfect, > but no piano is. Thanks for your help. > > God bless > > Bill Balmer,RPT > University of Findlay and Ohio Northern University > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091103/faffe8df/attachment.htm>
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