<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#D8D0C8" lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'> <div class=Section1> Do you mean at the bass tenor break?  Can’t say I’ve ever analyzed the scale on any Yamaha uprights to say one way or the other.  But for this project, all things considered, a U3 would still be a better choice than a K52 or a Boston, at least for me.    <div> David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com </div> -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Cy Shuster Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 11:03 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] uprights   <div> Do the U5's have that huge iH jump from wound to plain that the U3's do?  </div> <div>   </div> <div> --Cy-- </div> <div> ABQ, NM </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> ----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style='font-color:black'> From: <a href="mailto:davidlovepianos@comcast.net" title="davidlovepianos@comcast.net">David Love</a> </div> <div> To: <a href="mailto:caut@ptg.org" title="caut@ptg.org">'College and University Technicians'</a> </div> <div> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 6:57 PM </div> <div> Subject: Re: [CAUT] uprights </div> <div>   </div> You can buy 2 (maybe 3) Yamaha U5s for the price of one K52.  Better and cleaner sounding, easier to tune and service, easier to turn over should you decide to go that route.  It’s a no brainer for me.  I find the 1098’s wirey sounding full of falseness, difficult and unrewarding to tune.  Bostons I find also hard to tune (too enamored of tight tuning pins), cold and dry sounding.    <div> David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com </div> <div> <div> <div> List, </div>   <div> My school is interested in a large purchase of pianos...10 or more.   They are talking with Steinway.   The Boston would be included in the upright part of the purchase or the K52.   Opinions on the bigger Boston uprights and the K52.   Obviously, you can probably get 2 Bostons for the K52, but is the K52 a decent piano these days?   </div>   <div> David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 </div> </div> <div><span style='orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0;word-spacing:0px'><span style='orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px;-webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'> <div> Doug Wood </div> <div> School of Music </div> <div> University of Washington </div> </div>   </div> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>