And that’s where shops like mine come in.
So once the children leave home and the parents are left with the piano, it becomes difficult for them to find a new home for it. They don’t want to be receiving somebody else’s karma into their home via a second hand piano. It could be to do with the Karma aspect of the predominantly Budhist population. Why are so many used Yamaha U1 and U3 pianos coming out of Japan?Īpparently, there is a culture within Japan that people don’t like to buy too many second hand goods if they can help it. OK I’m waffling a bit now, I’ll get to the point now. They are so well built in fact that they are often used in many of the finest UK music schools such as Chethams in Manchester (who reportedly have over 100 Yamaha U3s in their practise rooms) Wycombe Abbey Girl’s Boarding School also has 9 or 10 Yamaha U3 pianos in their practise rooms. So Japan is full of these very popular models such as the top quality Yamaha U1 and Yamaha U3 models which are aimed at students who have ambition of getting to their grade 8 and beyond, they are very well built pianos. That does not include the inferior quality B series pianos (made in their Indonesian factories) or their mid-range P series pianos (which I understand are made in many several different factories all over the world including Milton Keynes until that one closed a couple of years ago). The serial numbers indicate that they have made well over 6,000,000 pianos now. Yamaha have made millions of pianos in their highest quality piano factory in Hamamatsu, Japan. I’ll try my best to remain impartial and calm but it does get me a bit hot & bothered this one :) The Background I’m not sure if it was Yamaha themselves or perhaps the new piano dealers who started off the rumours but please read on to find out my opinion on this question.
This is simply not the case and it’s just a case of naughty scaremongering by people who are more interested in their own company profits than of giving out honest and helpful advice to customers. It implies that there is something underhand or borderline-illegal about the pianos involved. I have to say that the phrase “grey market” is a very cheeky term indeed. Do "Grey Market" Yamaha pianos suffer from humidity problems
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