It's hard not to look back with regret, I can totally understand where you're coming from.
The seller had sold me a piano that was not as good as advertised. Perhaps I could have made something out of this grand with just a little additional work?Įvery piano has to be evaluated on its own merits as for sound and action.
The biggest regret was that the seller had made a real effort to drive the piano out to me himself (along with a helper) and he believes that I am still enjoying the piano when in fact it has already been sold back to another store that decided to pick it up for me and I took a considerable loss in cost. I wanted to add here that I am somewhat disappointed in what "could have been" with the G-208 as it certainly was a powerful grand with a bright and clear treble range although I became somewhat overly finicky with several notes that did not sound right and the obvious pedal issues which I am sure could have been corrected. The one you are looking at could be scary. So, I'd advise you not to rule out the "PG" line or later lines on the basis of the problems of their past. They are just what seems to be a consensus about the evolution of YC around the late 1990s through early 2000s. I do not know these things, other than the YouTube sounds, from personal experience. Then, sometime around 2000 or so, Del Fandrich made further contributions to the YC quality. The pianos produced after his input bore the new model number prefix "PG" instead of the older "G". One was the involvement of Joseph Pramberger around 1995. It seems that there were two noteworthy events that brought improvements to YC.
These samples got me over my fears that a baby grand could not have an enjoyable sound.Įxcited at the local prospect, I researched further. And it was not just those being offered for sale by piano dealers. To my surprise, many of them sounded very nice. The search returned about 15 results and I listened to all of them. So, I did a YouTube search for "Young Chang G150", or, "PG 150" (can't remember). I had reservations about the ability of such a small piano to produce an acceptable sound. I recently investigated the possible purchase of a 2000 YC baby grand (5'). However, things may have changed substantially since then for YC. I have not heard good things about YC pianos of that age. I wanted to believe in the Young Chang brand and pretty much gave away what could have been a potential long term playing instrument. Tone was pretty decent overall and the piano played quite well with a resonant bass end (aside from above mentioned issues) so I passed up a chance to perhaps correct the issues with a local technician who was going to charge around $1,850 to do the regulation of the action and other pedal and damper adjustments. Here was the piano I had purchased - as it was "sold" to me for $8,500 - and, after deciding not to keep it I then sold it back to another store: It would appear to me that most folks are afraid to even consider Young Chang grands with all of the other major piano brands out there as there are too many negative details regarding the action brackets problems from the middle 1980's though the 1990's and I passed up on one myself that did not have the action brackets problem but had some other issues regarding a heavy action, pedals and dampers that did not work correctly, and a number of notes in the treble range that had an odd buzzing sound and perhaps needed additional voicing and/or action regulation to correct?
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