[CAUT] Yamaha Exchange program; pros, cons

[Aaron Bousel]

Late 60's, early 70's are probably P2, not P22 
which I think only went into production when they 
moved to the Georgia plant. The P2 was made in 
Japan. We have some and I concur with Ed as to 
their durability. They made a model P202 in the 
Everett plant. They were not so successful.
The new P22s are all coming from China. The Georgia plant is closed.
Aaron

At 01:54 PM 6/8/2012, you wrote:
>If they are P22's made at the Georgia plant, you 
>should expect some VERY tight pins.
>Thumpe
>
>
>From: Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com>;
>To: <caut at ptg.org>;
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha Exchange program; pros, cons
>Sent: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 9:51:58 AM
>
>Greetings,
>     The Blair School has some P22's that were 
> purchased in the late 1960's.  They are still 
> in use, and they are still performing trouble 
> free.  These are practice room pianos, and they 
> have just,in the last 5 years, run out 
> of  hammers and key bushings.   Things like 
> dampers, pinning, pinblocks, bridges, trapwork 
> are still doing fine.   I am amazed at their 
> durability.  Maybe they think they are Acrosonics, I don't know.
>     As far as grands, the C3 was the better 
> choice for us, around the school.  Bean 
> counters somehow managed to be sold a number of 
> C2's in the mix, and now, 10 years later, the 
> C2 pianos are obviously the more worn, plus a 
> far greater amount of string breakage than the 
> C3.  I don't why, but perhaps a scaling 
> thing?  We have strings break all over school, 
> even in some new Steinways, so it isn't specific to the brand.
>     The Kawai K-3 models that we also have been 
> buying seem to hold up well, also.  I will be 
> curious to see how they handle a decade of digital debauchery , too.
>
>Ed Foote RPT
>http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/index.html
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shelley
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha Exchange program; pros, cons
>
>Thanks to all for your comments.  Some of which 
>we had thought of and some of which we had not!
>
>Our dealer has P22’s to send right away.  What 
>do you who have experience with them think of them?
>Which grands would you recommend?  Don’t know 
>if we can get any C5’s.  I have a few in my 
>client list and generally love them!
>We have plans to buy one of the loaners per year.
>
>Shelley
>


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