[pianotech] Taylor Pianos

[Barbara Nobbe]

Avery,

I don't have much experience with the Taylors, only have done a few dealer prep tunings on about a dozen.  From what I have been told by the sales staff, they are made by the same company that makes the Brodmann.   They are an entry level piano and I personally would not trade a Yamaha for one.  

From what I observed, the action plays quite nicely for a lower end market piano.  Again, I don't know the longevity of how it responds in the homes, but I'm taking the fact that I haven't had a complaint service call on warranty issues to be a good thing. 

I did notice that before tuning, I needed to go through and play every note to get the "chinks" out of the strings.  I'm not sure if this was because the pianos came straight out of the crates or if this will be a likely occurance in the homes.  Also, with the scaling, I noticed a lot of inconsistencies and some poor design with extreme angles of the strings at the bass/tenor breaks coming out of the agraffes and very little side bearing in the bridges at the high treble.

Hope the information helps.  I wish I had more to tell, but I will say they are definitely a better piano than another Chinese brand my dealer was carrying before these.  But now, they've replaced the Taylors with Pearl Rivers, so my experience is short-lived.

Good luck.

Barb Nobbe, RPT
Lexington, KY

-----Original message-----
From: Avery Todd <ptuner1 at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 10:57:28 GMT+00:00
Subject: [pianotech] Taylor Pianos

Anyone have any experience with the Taylor Piano? A good piano teacher
customer of mine called yesterday asking about them because the parents of
one of her students is looking to upgrade from their Yamaha vertical and
found them at a local dealership. I had never heard of them before and from
a search I just did, saw that they just came out about 3 years ago and were
introduced at the 2010 NAMM show.

http://pianomarketinggroup.com/Taylor_Pianos.html

Any info I could pass on to her would be appreciated. Thanks.

Avery Todd
Houston, TX

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