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The best Yamaha pianos, new and used
Our policy is not to sell cheap new Yamaha grands and uprights, as we don't consider them to be worth putting on the market (please see this page for further explanation). Our entry level for new pianos is the Yamaha U1 upright and the Yamaha C1 grand. For cheaper pianos than this, we prefer new Wendl and Lung pianos, or reconditioned U1 and U3 uprights and G2, G3, G5 and C7 grands. For current stock, please see our stocklist

 

Brief history of models and prices of Yamaha pianos
It's from about 1966 that we first see Yamaha pianos imported into in Europe. These early models are the ones that sound most like top German pianos, with a good deep mellow tone throughout the range. They are well 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 with 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 1994, when Yamaha brought out what they called a hand-built piano, the S series grands which currently start at £35,000 and SU series uprights from £9400.

Yamaha now operate a two tier system with their basic grands and uprights, usually not made in Japan, and the top range series which is still made there.  Considering that a Yamaha G3/C3 grand piano cost about £2,800 new in 1971 (600,000yen), the equivalent new price according to inflation since then would be £23,660!  A Yamaha U1D upright piano cost about £1000 new in 1965 (197,000yen). The equivalent new price today would be £11,590!

The early Yamahas are all of guaranteed high quality, up to about 1985. Since 1994 they developed a two tier system, with the top quality Yamahas still being made in Japan but others increasingly being made in different countries.

For further information please see the new and used Yamaha pages.
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Upright Pianos
New Uprights
Yamaha B1
Yamaha B2
Yamaha B3
Yamaha P114-M
Yamaha P114
Yamaha P116-NT
Yamaha P121-NT
Yamaha PX124-NT
Yamaha Radius-RD1
Yamaha Radius-RD2
Yamaha Radius-RD3
Yamaha SU-118-C
Yamaha SU-7
Yamaha U1Q
Yamaha U3S
Yamaha YUS-1
Yamaha YUS-3
Yamaha YUS-5

Used Uprights
Yamaha U1
Yamaha U3
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