Yamaha 6’-1” Conservatory Grand Piano.

  The C-series is arguably Yamaha’s most popular professional grand piano line and has had huge financial success. You will find their model C3 in performance venues everywhere including recording studios, piano bars and hotel lobbies, on concert stages and houses of worship. Many highly respected musicians are Yamaha Artists and endorse their pianos. Elton John and Chick Corea come to mind. Many schools of music have become All-Yamaha Schools as a means to attract students desiring quality musical instruments during their studies and practice. They will become the future concert pianists, studio musicians, recording artists, music professors and even high school teachers and band directors. A quick search and view of YouTube videos featuring a pianist will confirm the popularity of these instruments. The Yamaha website states that the C-series is “the most recorded piano in history” and “some of the most timeless hits have been recorded on a Yamaha C-series piano”.

Given that this is a “Performance Piano”, we decided it would sound better with a new set of piano strings, so we restrung the entire piano with premium Mapes International Gold Series music wire and custom bass strings. This required replacing the all-important pinblock, and we opted for premium Bolduc Canadian rock maple pinblock material that will add many decades of strong tuning stability. We also performed our usual shop work on a fine preowned piano. That means multiple pitch corrections, voicing, tightening action screws, minor action regulation, cleaning thoroughly of the inside, etc. As always, the piano was sourced locally, per our company policy. It has spent the majority of its entire life here. So, it is happily acclimated and fully adjusted to our unique desert Southwest climate and low relative humidity. It has always been serviced by local competent and knowledgeable technicians. It is in excellent condition – structurally and aesthetically, and should offer you decades of musical enjoyment. We will be happy to offer a two-year warranty on the piano and five years on our restringing and new pinblock.

Yamaha has had a well-deserved reputation for superior quality control and virtually perfect preparation at the factory. They arrive at the dealership in flawless condition. Technicians are enthusiastic about servicing them due to their exceptional engineering design. The Yamaha model C3 grand piano is a part of the Yamaha Conservatory Collection. The C-series line of pianos were built in the main factory in Hamamatsu, Japan. The C-series grands differ from the less costly G-series in that the former have harder and denser rims made from beech and mahogany which improves power and duration of sustain, slightly better plate composition and improved scaling. They have additional factories situated in China and Indonesia where their lesser-quality piano lines are built. Lower labor costs there enable more economical price points for their entry and mid-level models.

The C-series is the most recorded piano in history.

It has the classic Yamaha touch; fast, accurate and responsive with an excellent repetition. Their piano-actions are considered to be maintenance free. For general home and school use, piano technicians probably recommend Yamaha pianos more than any other brand. The tone is also classic Yamaha. It is harmonic-rich and sonorous with an excellent dynamic range, meaning the pianist can perform the subtlest pianissimo and most forceful fortissimo. It has somewhat of a percussive attack and the tone is very clear which is attractive to most listeners. A duet bench with storage is included. Complimentary local first-floor professional delivery is also included

The C3 features a Duplex scale design with Aliquots that tune the non-speaking length of the strings to vibrate at musically pleasing frequencies.

The half lid position with the short lid prop is a handsome way to display your grand piano.