Piano prices

[contrapunctus]

How much does a top of the line Yamaha upright cost (app.). What about a middle of the line one. What other American manufacturers make Yamaha-quality uprights?

[andyd]

Regarding the SU7, in the UK the 'sticker price' is £15k.  However the salesman almost immediately offered me one for £10k - perhaps he could tell I wasn't impressed by the instrument.

Andy

[Axtremus]

New Yamaha U1 around 6000 USD in the US.

Yamaha's manufacturing facility in Thomaston, Georgia, USA makes American-made Yamaha-quality upright, model T-116, that should cost less than the Japanese-made U1.

I don't know how else to answer your question "What other American manufacturers make Yamaha-quality uprights." Yamaha makes everything from cheap, short, entry-level uprights to expensive, tall, high-performance uprights. I know of no American manufacturer with the kind of breadth that Yamaha has when it comes to range of upright offerings.

[intermezzi]

Yamaha vertical pianos range from about $3000 (USD) for a basic console to over $10,000 for their tallest upright. A middle line is around $4000-$5000. That's what I have, and I'm very pleased with it. 

A lot of other American or American-made pianos have gone overseas or out of business. The big names I know of that are still made here are Kawai (probably like Yamaha, certain models are made in the U.S. and others in Japan or elsewhere), or Charles Walter, a newer but fairly well-respected American piano builder. And of course Steinway makes some uprights, but is more known for their grands. Does anyone know of any others?

[Axtremus]

A lot of other American or American-made pianos have gone overseas or out of business. The big names I know of that are still made here are Kawai (probably like Yamaha, certain models are made in the U.S. and others in Japan or elsewhere), or Charles Walter, a newer but fairly well-respected American piano builder. And of course Steinway makes some uprights, but is more known for their grands. Does anyone know of any others?

Kawai closed their plant in North Carolina. Unless Kawai has other manufacturing facilities in the US that I don't know of, I would not count Kawai among US manufacturers of acoustic uprights.

Besides that, Mason and Hamlin still makes uprights in the USA (sound body built in Haverhill, Massachusetts; case parts assembled in the West Coast, I think), and quite possibly Gibson/Baldwin as well -- I think they still build "Baldwin" uprights in the USA (though I may not be up to date on this).