[CAUT] Yahama YUS 5

[Edward Sambell]

This was in the Hoffman pianos, made by Euterpe, and acquired by Bechstein. As 
you say, very slick indeed. Though I take a somewhat jaundiced view of the 
muffler rail. If it gets used, it wears out quickly, and if not, why have it. 
Musically it is useless, and the rationale  it is there for apartment dwellers 
makes little sense. If it were a valid need for the piano, why is it not in 
grands too? The truth is that it is there to give the middle pedal something to 
do, and is cheaper than the unlamented bass damper lift, which has all but 
disappeared.Of course,  the marketers would scream if piano makers simply did 
the sensible thing and eliminated the middle pedal in verticals altogether, or 
used it exclusively for the sostenuto as is being done now in the more expensive 
instruments. A generation ago a prominent UK music educator, Tobias Matthay, 
likened the 'celeste' pedal, as it is called in England to "a dog barking with 
its head in a sack". Evidently he was not impressed with its celestial 
qualities. But I have to admit "celeste" was a brilliant selling tactic If a 
customer insisted on  a muffler rail it could made optional or retrofitted.

Ted Sambell




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From: Roger Jolly <roger.j at sasktel.net>
To: caut at ptg.org
Sent: Wed, February 9, 2011 6:46:01 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yahama YUS 5

 
Yep, it just lifts out. A Bechstein thing, so I was told, very slick.

Roger


At 05:19 PM 2/9/2011, you wrote:

Oh, you mean you don’t even have to undo a wing screw to remove it?
> 
>J
> 
>Don
> 
>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Roger 
>Jolly
>Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 2:28 PM
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yahama YUS 5
> 
>Or a Knabe KV131. Shameless Advertising. But the muffler rail is technician 
>friendly. :-)
>
>Roger
>
>
>At 04:22 PM 2/9/2011, you wrote:
>
>Sounds like a similar piano to the Kawai K-8, which has the same sostenuto / 
>muffler arrangement, also has agraffes, etc.
> 
>Nice pianos.  Not so bright as brand Y, maybe J
> 
>Don
> 
> 
>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [ mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Edward 
>Sambell
>Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:53 AM
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Subject: [CAUT] Yahama YUS 5
> 
>I tuned a Yamaha Upright YUS 5 recently Is this their largest upright/ The 
>center pedal is a sostenuto, and it has a muffler rail worked by a T-shaped 
>handle under the keybed near the bass end. It was impeccable, though could do 
>with voicing down a little. The pins were extremely tight.
>
>Ted Sambell.
> 

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