Pianos Wanted. We buy secondhand, used grand and upright pianos. We are especially looking for all models of Steinway, Bluthner, Yamaha, Bosendorfer, Bechstein, Fazioli, Grotrain Steinweg and Knight.

Ring us for more information 01865 240634

Do you want to sell your YAMAHA?

If you are thinking of selling your Yamaha piano we are interested in certain models. Most Japanese made grands and uprights are of good quality...

If you are short of time, just e-mail me with brief information about your piano to enquiry@robertspianos.com or phone 01865 240634

If you have time, please send us an email with the following information:

Is it an upright or a grand?
Make of piano Height of upright or length of grand (measured from the front of the keys to the back of the piano)
Serial number if available
How much use has the piano had, if known.
Is the casework in original condition as far as you know.
Brief comments on the condition of the piano in general.
Please e-mail this information to: info@robertspianos.com or phone 01865 240634.
At this stage, you don't need to send any photographs, though they would be useful to assess more accurately how much your piano is worth.

TAKING PHOTOS

If you take photos, please could you supply the following:

1 The piano taken from the front slightly to one side
2 Close-up of the keys and name
3 Close-up of the front with the lid closed
4 The serial number or the piano on the frame or elsewhere if you can find it.
5 About 10 hammers in the mid treble taken from above showing the indentation in the end of them
6 The strings and tuning pins taken towards from the middle, showing especially where the strings are wound onto the tuning pins.
7 The soundboard behind or under the strings
8 Any obvious defects

Please try to fit as many photos as possible into one email.

Brief history of models and prices of Yamaha pianos in Europe

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, and the top range series. These are the Yamaha S4A Grand Piano, Yamaha S6A Grand Piano, Yamaha CFIIIS Grand Piano, Yamaha SU118C upright Piano and Yamaha SU7 upright Piano. 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. Since about 1985 they developed a two tier system, with the top quality Yamahas still being made in Japan but others increasingly being made in different countries. There is now so much variely of model and number that it's difficult to keep track.

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For a quote on your piano please phone: (01865) 240634

Or send us an email with its piano make, model, serial number, estimated age and pictures of the piano to info@robertspianos.com

Other makes of piano that we are looking for: Allison (baby grand), Brinsmead (upright), Challen, Chappell, Fazer (upright), Feurich, Gors and Kallman, Hoffmann, Ibach, John Broadwood, Kaps (upright), Kawai, Kemble, Richard Lipp (grand), Petrov (grand), Psalmist, Rippen, Rogers (George), Samick, Sauter, Seiler, Steck, Welmar, Zender... Please inquire for other makes.