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Piano Board => Instruments => Topic started by: casalevy on February 25, 2011, 08:12:50 PM

Title: Help with low cost Brands
Post by: casalevy on February 25, 2011, 08:12:50 PM

Dear Friends

I run a traditional piano dealer and restore in Brazil, we work with brands such as Grotrian and Bechstein but ufortunatelly good european or american pianos are too much expensive for the Brazilian patterns and olny low cost pianos have a good demmand in Brazil, so i´m searching for some oriental brand to work with (Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia and so on)

My question is .... excluding kawai and yamaha, and considering the limitations caused by the low cost, wich other oriental pianos should we consider as good..??

thank´s in advance and sorry for any grammar mistake.

Claudio Levy
https://www.casalevydepianos.com.br (https://www.casalevydepianos.com.br)

Title: Re: Help with low cost Brands
Post by: keys60 on February 26, 2011, 01:08:35 PM

Form what I'm reading, Pearl River is providing some good quality "for the price".
Seems the same here in the US. The lower cost pianos fill most of the average homes while the creme de la creme go to the wealthier, schools and music institutions.

Title: Re: Help with low cost Brands
Post by: jian10 on February 28, 2011, 07:21:42 PM

I just learned about HaiLun and Broadmann.  Both are made in China but supposedly have excellent qualities.  Has anyone familiar with either brand?  I mean, if anyone owns or has played on these pianos, I would love to hear your feedback.

Title: Re: Help with low cost Brands
Post by: johnlewisgrant on April 13, 2011, 06:41:41 AM

I hope this thread isn't dead.   Re Chinese pianos: I've played a few over the last coupld of weeks.   Completely by accident, because normally I wouldn't go near one.   All of them have pretty poor tone and touch, in my experience, with one huge and odd exception: Hailun and Wendl & Lung (I think I got that right) which I'm told are nearly identical except for the more expensive finish of the latter.   I played a number of different sized Hailun grands, and I have to admit that both the action and the tone were considerably more refined than what one typically experiences on a Kawai or Yamaha. 

Stunning, in fact, is probably the word I'd use to describe the 218 Hailun Grand, notwithstanding the hideous and tacky plastic-looking keys.   The uprights are, as well, very, very acceptable--although I'm not keen on uprights generally.

They are, as well, very inexpensive.


JG

Title: Re: Help with low cost Brands
Post by: john90 on April 13, 2011, 06:59:08 AM

I just had a look at the original poster's website from his signature. There is a video above showing the history of the shop, including pianos arriving in horse drawn carts, pianos being uncrated in the 1920s, etc. Interesting.