Current page: Yamahas/Upright-pianos
(updated June 2008)

NEW YAMAHA UPRIGHT PIANOS
We stock a range of new Yamaha upright pianos, the Yamaha U1 Q upright piano and the Yamaha U3S upright piano being the most popular. Please see the pages for details.

USED YAMAHA UPRIGHTS
Our main used Yamaha upright piano stock comprises fine quality Yamaha U1D, U1G, U1H, U3G and U3H upright pianos. They are all little used, in pristine condition and are mostly made between 1965 and 1985, a period we consider to be the pinnacle of tone quality for Yamahas. All second hand piano prices include free delivery to ground floor within 60 miles of our shops, and a 5 year guarantee.

Brief history of models and prices of Yamaha upright pianos

It's from 1966 that we first see Yamaha pianos in Europe. These early models are the ones that sound the most like German pianos, with a good deep mellow tone throughout the range. They are more expensively constructed with top quality soundboards, excellent hammers, wooden pedal mechanisms on uprights and mostly wooden action parts. As the Korean and later the Chinese factories began to produce large numbers of pianos in competition with Yamaha, so the Yamaha piano started to be made more economically. Wooden parts were replaced by plastic or aluminium, though lately there has been a return to wooden action flanges. The tone also started to lack the rich depth that it previously had. The gradual brightening of tone is evident until about 1990, when Yamaha brought out what they called a hand-built piano, grands starting at £28,000 and uprights at £7,699. Yamaha now operate a two tier system with their basic grands and uprights usually not made in Japan... For more information click here

IMPORTANT: Yamaha "Slient System" upright pianos.

We recommend buying an upright piano with a practice pedal rather than one with a Yamaha "Silent" system. This is because the touch on the Yamaha silent piano is compromised by the bar which comes between the hammers and the strings. As a result, the "Let off", which is the distance from the strings which the hammer reaches before the player looses control of it, increases from 2-3mm on most good ordinary pianos to 6-9mm on "silent" pianos. We find this makes soft playing more difficult both in normal and silent mode, thereby reducing the range of expression, and also gives the action a "choppy" feel. The traditional practice pedal found on most Yamaha uprights before about 1990 is ideal if for instance you live in a flat and need to practice very quietly.

We've been selling used imported Yamaha upright pianos for over 20 years. Our current agent in Japan used to manage Yamaha Europa G.m.b.H., German subsidiary, and we visit him in Japan regularly to keep a check on quality. They are always little used, and the case and loops are checked and repaired if necessary in Japan before shipping, also the bass strings are replaced if they have lost their tone. We then finely regulate and tune them, and guarantee our uprights for 5 years For more information click here.

Please click on TODAY'S STOCKLIST to find out which Yamaha upright pianos we currently have.

A Word of Warning:

Unfortunately, as we have said above, not all models of Yamaha are good pianos. When we come across one we think you should definitely avoid, we will try to list it here. To start this list, we recommend you steer clear of the very common secondhand Yamaha E108 made from about 1985 to 2003, and also the second hand Yamaha LU101 made around 1984, which can be reasonable but is variable. We find these models often sound brash, patchy. We also find recent B series to have a thin tone... For more information click here

List of used Yamaha upright pianos:

(Please enquire for best price and availability)

Date of manufacture	Manufacturer Type	Model	Dimensions (WxHxD)	Colour(s)	Weight	No. pedals	Photos & click for description
1972 - 1980	YAMAHA Upright	U1H	150 x 121 x 610	Black polyester	217kg	3
1982 - 1987	YAMAHA Upright	U1A	150 x 121 x 610	Black Polyester	218kg	3
1982 - 1987	YAMAHA Upright	U3A	154 x 131 x 650	Black Polyester	242kg	3
1982 - 1988	YAMAHA Upright	UX1	150 x 121 x 610	Black Polyester	219kg	3
1975 - 1980	YAMAHA Upright	UX	154 x 131 x 650	Black Polyester	250kg	3
1982 - 1988	YAMAHA Upright	UX3	154 x 131 x 650	Black Polyester	242kg	3
1980 - 1982	YAMAHA Upright	YUX	154 x 131 x 650	Black Polyester	240kg	3
1972 - 1980	YAMAHA Upright	U3H	154 x 131 x 650	Black Polyester	248kg	3

New Yamaha Upright Pianos (as of 23rd September 2006)

Sales History

Since 1983 we have sold pianos throughout the UK and abroad. UK sales since 2000 have been to the following locations: Aberdeen, Abingdon, Amersham, Ascot, Aylesbury, Banbury, Bangor, Bedford, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Bicester, Birmingham, Brackley, Bognor Regis, Bournemouth, Brighton, Bristol, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, Burford, Chesterfield, Chesterton, Chichester, Chipping Norton, Chiswick, Colchester, Cosham, Coventry, Croydon, Deal, Dorchester, Dorset, Drayton, Dunstable, Ealing, Edinburgh, Emsworth, Essex, Fareham, Faringdon, Forest Gate, Gloucester, Goring, Gosport, Great Milton, Hambledon, Hampshire, Harpenden, Hartley Witney, Haslemere, Hayling Island, Heathfield, Horsham, Ilkley, Inverness, Isle of Wight, Kent, Kings Lynn, Leamington Spa, Leicester, Lincolnshire, Central London, West London, North London, South London, Maidenhead, Malvern, Manchester, Marlow, Meon Valley, Milton, Newbury, Northampton, Northants, Norwich, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Petersfield, Portsmouth, Reading, Rugby, Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Solihull, Somerset, Southampton, Southsea, Stafford, Stratford, Stoke Newington, Suffolk, Surbiton, Surrey, Stratford on Avon, Tangmere, Thame, Thetford, Titchfield, Tring, Tunbridge Wells, Twickenham, Twyford, Virginia Water, Wallingford, Wantage, Warwick, Waterlooville, Wendover, West Sussex, Winchester, Wimbledon, Windsor, Witney, Wokingham, Woodstock, Woolwich, York.

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Present and previous Yamaha pianos in stock:
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Yamaha U1D - Yamaha U1 upright pianos

Yamaha U1G - Yamaha U1 upright pianos

Yamaha U1H - Yamaha U1 upright pianos

Yamaha U3H upright Yamaha U3 upright pianos

Yamaha U3G upright Yamaha U3 upright pianos

Yamaha U3 upright Yamaha U3 upright pianos