Young Chang reply

[pianoman]

Hi Dave,
I can remember tuning 1 Yamaha grand in the 60's at a church. I tuned
regularly.  Was a good piano.  I have one client with a Story & Clark 5'8"
made by Yamaha (how long ago was that?) virtually a great piano.  I have
seen very few bad Yamahas through the years, including the early ones.
I am not sure the Young-Changs will ever get to that point.  I don't see
the commitment with the Koreans as I seen with the Japanese.
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"Only my best is good enough"

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> From: DGPEAKE@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Young Chang
> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 1997 12:51 AM
> 
> Caleb,
> 
> About 30 years ago, the Yamaha's were not a good piano, but they are in
> excellent quality now.  Young Chang may be of the same path.  
> 
> I contract w/a dealer that used to sell YC's and my experience that they
are
> hard to get the tuning to stablelize.  My church has a G213 which I tune
> every month, not 
> because it gets hours and hours of heavy use per week, but because it
will
> not stay 
> in tune.
> 
> 10.5K is a good starting price for a new grand of YC's quality. Since the
> dealer I contract with is no longer selling the YC's, I am not sure about
the
> quality of the ones manufactured today. Chances are the newer YC's are
better
> today than the past.  Comments are welcome.
> 
> Dave Peake, RPT
> Portland, OR
> 
> 
>