They currently produce the Fridolin line of budget pianos for German-based Schimmel. The company used to manufacture pianos for Yamaha’s Korean distribution and the Essex line of introductory level budget pianos for Steinway & Sons. This has included Albert Weber, Weber, Pramberger, Bergman as well as Young Chang. Young Chang built pianos have and continue to be marketed under a variety of different brand names. These pianos are known for their solid build and quality tone. The goal of the company was to create a quality piano in the most efficient way, keeping their piano’s price points reasonable, thus making the instrument accessible to as many piano enthusiasts and musicians as possible. The company grew rapidly and became the largest maker of pianos in the world. They embraced the challenge of entering the piano market relatively ‘late’ in the game. When they began piano production they were already experienced in the piano industry. It is sometimes difficult to go out on a limb and differ to some extent on the popular consensus, but I do this to try to give you the truth without being blinded by the immense advertising and other gimmicks sometimes propogated by some companies.The three Young Chang brothers, Jai-Young Kim, Jai-Chang Kim, and Jai-Chang Kim founded Young Chang Co. This is why my list may vary from other lists. I have taken my best effort to review these pianos based on construction of build (support beams, construction materials, etc.) and quality of sound and touch (sustain of tone, and quality of timbre) without paying attention to name brands.
Many professionals including teachers and tuners are influenced by advertising of certain brands. I have my favorite pianos and someone else with the same credentials may like something else! Having worked in the piano industry for over 15 years and I continue to do so, this is my opinion on quality of manufacture and sound quality as well as touch and responsiveness. A select few pianists will really be able to notice the small performance gains that come at an enormous increase in pricing that a true high end piano will provide.Īny piano rating system will not be definitive and agreed upon by all pianists. In this day and age of pianos and technical advancement many lower priced pianos will perform within the realm of some of the most expensive pianos. If they designed a better piano with better parts than it does! Also a smaller piano company (ie: lesser advertised piano) could produce a superior product in design and materials yet save great quantities of money not paying to advertise their products. Therefore, a NAME brand (or more advertised piano name) doesn't necessarily make for a better piano.
The materials and design specifications that pianos are made of produce the tone and touch of any given piano. Quality control from a good quality piano factory in China will match the best Japanese piano factories, and depending on the models, they will sometimes exceed them. Such generalizations I hear on almost a daily bases, like, Pianos made in Japan are better than pianos made in China or Indonesia and the like. while this may have been true 10 to 15 years ago. The piano industry is a very fast paced quickly changing industry that does not lend itself well to generalizations. There are many different answers and in many cases they are all correct answers. Perzina (carl ebel with laminated soundboard) Samick Stencil (all stencil pianos Kohler & Campbell, Conover Cable, etc.)
Boston (baby grands and grands built for Steinway by Kawai) These are good but very massed produced pianos and in a price rage of average households. Solid pianos suitable for performance, but made for institutional purpose or practice at home. Most are limited production, handmade pianos.Īlthough not world class, these are very high quality and still some of the best pianos in the world. These pianos are built and perform to the highest standards. Group A - World class, high performance pianos. This is only my opinion of the quality ranking of the various pianos and is not a definitive list of piano manufacturers. The Quality of pianos listed in descending order.
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