Piano Name: August Förster Website: August Förster Model: 116 Made in: Germany Parent Company: August Förster Company Location: Germany Height: 46″ History: August Förster established his company in 1859 in Löbau, Germany. Being made into a nationalized company post World War II, the company still managed to stay under family leadership. After the collapse of… Read More

Piano Name: Yamaha Website: Yamaha Model: YUS5 Made in: Japan Parent Company: Yamaha Corporation Company Location: Japan Height: 52″ History: In 1887 a watchmaker by the name of Torakusu Yamaha founded Japan’s first reed organ company. By 1899 he traveled to the USA to learn how to build pianos and started making grand and upright… Read More

Piano Name: Boston Website: Boston Model: UP-132E Made in: Japan Parent Company: Steinway Company Location: USA Height: 52″ History: Introduced in 1992, Boston is the name of Steinway’s middle line of pianos. Steinway designed, built by Kawai to Steinway’s specifications. With the exception of the UP118, built in Indonesia, all other pianos are manufactured in… Read More

Piano Name: Kayserburg Website: Kayserburg Model: KA-126 Made in: China Parent Company: Pearl River Piano Group Company Location: China Height: 49″ History: Pearl River Piano Group (PRPG) is officially the largest piano company in the world producing over 140,000 pianos annually. They are built by a separate team of piano makers within Pearl River and… Read More

W. Hoffmann V131 Upright Piano Piano Name: W. Hoffmann Website: W. Hoffmann Model: V131 Made in: Czech Republic Parent Company: C. Bechstein Pianoforte Fabrik Company Location: Germany Height: 51.5″ History: W. Hoffmann pianos have been in existence since 1893 and were first manufactured in Berlin. For a time the Hoffmann name was manufactured by Feurich.… Read More

Piano Name: Brodmann Website: Brodmann Model: AS-132 Made in: Germany Parent Company: Parsons Music Corporation Company Location: China Height: 52″ History: Joseph Brodmann was a piano maker in the early 1800’s employing the young apprentice Ignaz Bösendorfer. Bösendorfer took over Brodmann’s production in 1828. But in 2004, two former Bösendorfer executives re-established the Brodmann name… Read More

Piano Name: Yamaha Website: Yamaha Model: YUS3 Made in: Japan Parent Company: Yamaha Corporation Company Location: Japan Height: 52″ History: In 1887 a watchmaker by the name of Torakusu Yamaha founded Japan’s first reed organ company. By 1899 he traveled to the USA to learn how to build pianos and started making grand and upright… Read More

Yamaha U3 Upright Piano Piano Name: Yamaha Website: Yamaha Model: U3 Made in: Japan Parent Company: Yamaha Corporation Company Location: Japan Height: 52″ Impressions: Over the last few decades I’ve had the opportunity to play hundreds of Yamaha U3 pianos. They have become so popular that people ask for them by model. Consumers come into… Read More

Piano Name: Kayserburg Website: Kayserburg Model: KA121 Made in: China Parent Company: Pearl River Piano Group Company Location: China Height: 47.5″ History: Pearl River Piano Group (PRPG) is officially the largest piano company in the world producing over 140,000 pianos annually. They are built by a separate team of piano makers within Pearl River and… Read More

Piano Name: Kawai Website: Kawai Model: K500 Made in: Japan Parent Company: Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Company Location: Japan Height: 51″ History: The Kawai company was formed in 1927 by a group consisting of Koichi Kawai and 7 of his colleagues. By 1955 Shigeru Kawai led the company into modern manufacturing and by… Read More