New* tone comparison between Yamaha U3, Kawai K500, Feurich 122, Ritmüller RS130 & Blüthner

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
  • Very interesting comparison between new and used pianos showing the Db reading for middle C on each piano in graphics and difference in tone. Tone of piano being one of the two aspects most important to piano buying from hard to soft. Piano tone has a feeedback loop to quality of touch as well as touch pressure varies for tone rendering.
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  • @stoicstudents
    @stoicstudents ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Acoustic pianos absolutely are the best, they ALL give off their own distinct tune, you can easily hear the difference between each piano, they all have their own souls, i dearly yearn for the day i get my hands on an Acoustic

  • @DanielLearnsPiano
    @DanielLearnsPiano ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Unfortunately, the clipping audio makes it really hard to listen to the comparison.

    • @burningdog2
      @burningdog2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Agreed. I unfortunately left a dislike on what was otherwise a really informative video, for this reason.

    • @michaelw6554
      @michaelw6554 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Exactly, they all sounded harsh due to the mic-ing of the instruments.

  • @Contraster671
    @Contraster671 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This video is so, so helpful thank you

  • @geraldvaughan5103
    @geraldvaughan5103 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your very informative demo. I have a Blüthner from 1934 and am in the process of regulating it. This demo was good for me as I can hear the same quality in the Blüthner you played. Now I'm satisfied that the mellow tone is correct for it. It's been fitted with brand new Abel hammers. Thank you again and I hope to hear more from you.

  • @christineharmony2375
    @christineharmony2375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you . Really useful .

  • @jismo7
    @jismo7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That's incredible, bearing in mind every 3dB increase is twice as loud. I have a Feurich 179 Dynamic II which is very loud. I think the Kawai sounds the best in your video.

  • @edwardhurst4069
    @edwardhurst4069 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fabulous comparison, thank you. Bluthner is my preference. 🙂🍃

  • @hsn10
    @hsn10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ritmüller is sweet. I am sold.

  • @jack-hi3tb
    @jack-hi3tb 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a Bluthner Grand piano the same length Only two years older. It has been redone and sounds fantastic.

  • @jerrydavis1475
    @jerrydavis1475 ปีที่แล้ว

    Among those uprights I like the Feurich 122

  • @MrSouzy
    @MrSouzy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For me the Bluethner sounded fantastic. Didn't like the yamaha at all. We have an old Seiler at present but I have promised myself a newer piano when I hit my personal playing goals. Of course it should not be a downgrade in terms of sound quality and playability. I was thinking about a bluethner upright. Have you ever had one of those in your shop?

  • @PanFriedWeegee
    @PanFriedWeegee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i just want an acoustic piano lowkey

  • @benjaminsmith2287
    @benjaminsmith2287 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A 1980 Yamaha is world's apart from a current model. Yamaha made a lot of changes to their tone over the years where Kawai's tone has evolved but overall not as drastically as Yamaha. Would like to see the same thing done with a current Yamaha U. But, even for 1980s Yamaha, that's a bright one. On the db meter, they all seem to have a similar low end number.

    • @jen43072
      @jen43072 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd imagine a 1980 piano that had been played a lot has very compacted felts on the hammers and are overly bright even for Yamaha's typical tone. Would imagine a good voicing would smooth that out quite a bit.

    • @benjaminsmith2287
      @benjaminsmith2287 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jen43072 Yamaha's "typical" tone has changed and especially on the medium to upper-level grands. The CX has some of the changes in tone from the CFX, just not as refined. The SX is a softer sounding piano than the CX and even CF series. So they're not the bright pianos of earlier eras and even some of them weren't bright. Of course, voicing can be altered but the base sound has changed. The U series has undergone a lot of changes too including to the plate, the pins, the strings, and the hammers that now include under felts. It still has a U sound but it's different now.

    • @eliomax6658
      @eliomax6658 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@benjaminsmith2287 yamaha u3 year 1980 and yamaha u3 2020 sound very very different. In Italy I don't understand so much price difference between yamaha u3 and kawai k500: yamaha euro 12/13000, kawai 7/8000.

    • @benjaminsmith2287
      @benjaminsmith2287 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eliomax6658 Right. Yamahas are very different sounding pianos through the generations. Kawai and Yamaha should be closer priced. Kawai is sometimes a bargain compared to Yamaha.

    • @chriswalden6519
      @chriswalden6519 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I totally agree, I'm a piano tuner and had an 80's U1 when I was doing my grades, I tuned a brand new U1 the other week and it was terrible in comparison, such a shame as the 70/80's models are amazing instruments.

  • @user-pk2nh5hb7w
    @user-pk2nh5hb7w 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Красивая игра. Вы пианист?

  • @disienna
    @disienna 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wish the sound was clipping….

    • @cadriver2570
      @cadriver2570 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, it's a fantastic concept.. Set the levels lower guys!

  • @Sloimer
    @Sloimer ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow - is that U3 really that much louder than the others?

    • @sighwilly9473
      @sighwilly9473 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have a Yamaha U-3 upright grand in black.. what I dont like is the bass notes are way too muddy. If more than 2 notes are played... it has a very distorted muddy sound. My Yamaha U-3 has a much warmer sound, & clearer from what the U-3 or any piano's played had. Only muddy if played in a chord in the bass.
      And all the demo's are always Classical pieces. I play jazz, pop, rock, country, gospel, alternate... very little classical.

    • @absolutetuber
      @absolutetuber 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you regret getting the U3? We have whittled down our choices to the U3 or the K500. We like them both. Granted we aren’t professionals but my wife is incredibly proficient (she has a degree in music education and teaches piano) and I’m more of a late-intermediate, early advanced player. Either way, we will be able to get either one for around 12k and it’s probably going to be the last piano we buy.

  • @J.AshtonMorgan
    @J.AshtonMorgan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    7:50 I disagree, I take it you've never heard of American piano companies Steinway & Sons or Mason and Hamlin? The American piano sound is more mellow than "big, loud, brash sounds." European pianos typically aren't "mellow" they are known for their "bell-like" tone, as they say.
    As per the article titled "Steinway: An American Story" on Steinway's own website, it states Henry E. Steinway "founded STEINWAY & SONS in New York City with the goal of building the best piano possible." This is in response to comment claiming it is a German brand (which for some reason YT isn't allowing me to respond to).

    • @alejomontoya9794
      @alejomontoya9794 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Steinway and sons is not an American brand, is german, look it up

    • @J.AshtonMorgan
      @J.AshtonMorgan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alejomontoya9794 As per the article titled "Steinway: An American Story" on Steinway's own website it states Henry E. Steinway "founded STEINWAY & SONS in New York City with the goal of building the best piano possible."

  • @michaelbrown192
    @michaelbrown192 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why don't you buy a microphone? Every tone is clipping.

  • @cabotcat1
    @cabotcat1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    None sounded great to me

    • @J.AshtonMorgan
      @J.AshtonMorgan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Probably because everything is distorted, the microphone(s) was too close or they should've turned their gain knob down on their recording interface.

  • @patrickho9007
    @patrickho9007 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    very biased