Y-C Pramberger Pianos

[Stephen Airy]

I wasn't sure whether to reply to your post or David
Renaud's post so I picked this one.

I guess my family was unfortunate to get a small YC
Prammy.  It's a PG-150 (4'11") -- too short and too
tubby in the bass IMO.  We were looking at 6-foot
grands but they were a little too expensive (we paid
about $6k for our PG-150).

What do you guys think of the smaller models?

--- Paul McCloud <pmc333@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Phil, Listers:
>     I guess since I work at a dealer that sells
> them, and having also
> formerly had the Steinway franchise, I will take a
> stab at the
> comparison.
>     Mr. Pramberger's philosophy regarding the
> redesigned Young Chang
> piano is that he isn't going to start from scratch. 
> He gave the
> presentation Phil mentioned at our store and said
> he's just changing the
> old YC design as needed to improve it.  It is not
> that they are just
> like the S&S.  It is my experience that they are
> much better than the
> "Gold Series" Y.C. in the overall quality and scale
> design.  The
> crossover at the break is very smooth.  The tone is
> very clear, and the
> bass is much improved.  I have seen some quality
> variance, especially in
> the action.  I don't much care for the hammers,
> which tend to be a bit
> lopsided.  They seem to have a lot of tension in
> them and look crooked
> rather than straight on the sides.  Shanks in early
> models were prone to
> twisting.  Damper wires are typically too much
> leaning to the left and
> so friction causes them to hang up, mostly in the
> upper section where
> there aren't any weights in the underlevers.  The
> quality and
> consistency is no where near that of say, Yamaha.
>     For the price, they are very good, but are no
> where close to
> (surprise?) a Steinway.   FWIW,
>     Paul McCloud
>     San Diego
> 
> --
> mailto:pmc333@earthlink.net
> 
> 


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