[CAUT] comparisons

[Robin Blankenship]

For a couple of years, I worked for a local retail outlet that handled 
Yamahas and I asked about the purpose and place of the T-121. "It's the 
replacement for the P-22" was all I heard. Gee, I didn't know that the P-22 
needed a replacement. And, after seeing a number of new 121's, I still 
thought that. I never did figure out their reason for being. I had no 
particular problem or issue with them, just puzzlement.

Robin Blankenship

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] comparisons


> Hope recommendations will be made on-list as I deal with a lot of P22's,
> P202's, and T 121, and would like to hear other people share experience 
> with
> them. T 121 doesn't seem to have been around a whole lot, but what little
> I've heard, techs who play well aren't overwhelmed with them.
> les bartlett
> houston
>
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> A440A at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 6:05 PM
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> Subject: [CAUT] comparisons
>
> Greetings all,
>    I have been asked to make some recommendations for school practise room
> pianos.  Here at Vanderbilt, we have been using quite a few Yamaha U-3
> pianos, with good results.  They were purchased some years ago when they 
> had
> the true sostenuto pedals on them.  Now, the only Yamaha uprights with the
> sos. are too
> expensively priced for us to purchse, so I am considering the others.
>    Our dealer here has suggested the P-22 as the workhorse piano for
> practise rooms, though I certainly would prefer a larger piano.  I  am
> unfamiliar with the T-121 pianos( $ 6,495), but it was offered as an
> alternative to the U-1, ( $7,495).
>      The Kawai dealer has proposed the K-25 or the K-3 pianos.  I know
> nothing about them, though I have some idea that the K-60 would be a 
> better
> piano.
> It certainly weighs more, which means something.
>
>     I figure that other CAUT's might have seen some  of these models in
> action for some time and could give me an idea of how durable they might 
> be.
>
>
> On list or off, would anybody care to make some recommendations among 
> these
> models, based on how they hold up?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>
>
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