Late 60's, early 70's are probably P2, not P22 which I think only went into production when they moved to the Georgia plant. The P2 was made in Japan. We have some and I concur with Ed as to their durability. They made a model P202 in the Everett plant. They were not so successful. The new P22s are all coming from China. The Georgia plant is closed. Aaron At 01:54 PM 6/8/2012, you wrote: >If they are P22's made at the Georgia plant, you >should expect some VERY tight pins. >Thumpe > > >From: Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com>; >To: <caut at ptg.org>; >Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha Exchange program; pros, cons >Sent: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 9:51:58 AM > >Greetings, > The Blair School has some P22's that were > purchased in the late 1960's. They are still > in use, and they are still performing trouble > free. These are practice room pianos, and they > have just,in the last 5 years, run out > of hammers and key bushings. Things like > dampers, pinning, pinblocks, bridges, trapwork > are still doing fine. I am amazed at their > durability. Maybe they think they are Acrosonics, I don't know. > As far as grands, the C3 was the better > choice for us, around the school. Bean > counters somehow managed to be sold a number of > C2's in the mix, and now, 10 years later, the > C2 pianos are obviously the more worn, plus a > far greater amount of string breakage than the > C3. I don't why, but perhaps a scaling > thing? We have strings break all over school, > even in some new Steinways, so it isn't specific to the brand. > The Kawai K-3 models that we also have been > buying seem to hold up well, also. I will be > curious to see how they handle a decade of digital debauchery , too. > >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/index.html > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Shelley >Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha Exchange program; pros, cons > >Thanks to all for your comments. Some of which >we had thought of and some of which we had not! > >Our dealer has P22âs to send right away. What >do you who have experience with them think of them? >Which grands would you recommend? Donât know >if we can get any C5âs. I have a few in my >client list and generally love them! >We have plans to buy one of the loaners per year. > >Shelley > ------------------------------------------ Aaron Bousel abousel at comcast.net (413) 253-3544 (voice) (413) 253-3846 (voice & fax) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20120608/b31a4635/attachment.htm>
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