Description
This is a gently played Yamaha U3 that is excellent, like new condition, with beautiful tone quality and excellent key touch, and in the beautiful ebony polish that still looks shiny and new. Yamaha U3’s are high quality pianos are designed and built to last 100+ years which makes buying a used one such an incredible value. All Yamaha U3’s are made in Hamamatsu, Japan. Our price is always based on age and condition of the specific piano. Shop and Compare…because we focus on a limited number of mint condition like new pianos, we have low overhead so we are typically 10% less than what most dealers ask for the same year model and condition piano.
Our U3 pricing includes the following:
* FIVE year limited local warranty
* Austin area delivery (up to $250 value; may be an extra charge for stairs and other obstacles)
* One in-home tuning ($160 value)
* Piano Bench ($200 value)
* 100% trade up toward a grand piano within the next TEN years
* We accept cash, check, credit card, debit card, or our bank offers low interest payment plans with approved credit
We acquire used U3’s in one of four ways:
- purchase direct from individuals
- take them on trade
- take them on consignment
- THIS ONE: we buy from a company called DoReMi that specializes in restoring Yamaha and Kawai pianos to near like new condition, which our customers find that these pianos offer the best value. Refurbished U3’s will cosmetically look like new. The internal mechanisms have been gone through and put back to factory specification either by adjustments or by replacing worn parts. Think about this…an acoustic piano’s action alone contains about 8000 parts, many of which wear and deteriorate over time. The DoReMi factory is located in Hamamatsu City, Japan and houses the most modern machinery and tooling available. In addition, their technicians and craftspeople (most of whom come to us from the production lines of the two best Japanese piano manufactures) are among the most skilled and experienced in the piano industry. Yamaha U1 and U3 pianos are the most popular of all the studio pianos purchased in the United States* as well as Japan. And just to clarify any confusion out there (ex. misinformation on the web): ALL Yamaha U3’s are made in Hamamatsu, Japan, period. (Other variations like the T3, B3, M3, etc are made in other countries and are not famous for the quality that the U3 offers).
The U3 is one of the most sought after used pianos on the market. It is constantly recommended by teachers, tuners, piano technicians, and pianists. We focus only on the best U3’s to be found on the market. They are always in EXCELLENT like new mint condition! We always seem to find them, and almost always have a high quality used one in stock. Most people are surprised when we tell them the U3 they are looking at is actually a used piano. The U3 is 4 inches taller than the U1 and offers a better bass and overall deeper tone.
Why buy a used piano??? Last year in the United States there were over an estimated 1 million pianos sold, of those, 20,000 were new, and the remainder of over 980,000 were used. It’s hard to compare a used piano to buying a used car or a used computer or almost anything else used. If you don’t normally buy things used, there are lots of good reasons to buy a high quality used piano like the Yamaha U3. Here are just a few:
- a high quality piano’s soundboard improves with age
- a new piano’s tone doesn’t start to mature until it’s five to ten years old
- a new piano’s action can take a few years to break in
- a well cared for top brand piano like the U3 is virtually like buying new but for much less
- Yamaha U3 pianos are designed and built to last 100+ years
- We’ve been in business since 1988 and have sold an incredible amount of gently played Yamaha U-Series upright and C-series grand pianos,. They are an amazing-awesome-top quality brand of piano and we are so confident that you are buying a solid piano that we stand behind it with our 5 year warranty!
OUR PROMISE TO YOU: our pricing is so reasonably fair and coupled with the fact that the Yamaha U3 pianos have a proven track record of holding their value over time, we guarantee that at minimum we will give YOU what you paid us for the U3 piano itself when you trade up to one of our like new grand pianos within the next TEN years.
