🎹 Yamaha B1 vs Kawai K15 Upright Pianos Comparison & Demo by Merriam Pianos 🎹 скачать в хорошем качестве

🎹 Yamaha B1 vs Kawai K15 Upright Pianos Comparison & Demo by Merriam Pianos 🎹

🛒 Get the Yamaha B1 HERE ▸https://www.merriammusic.com/product-... 🛒 Get the Kawai K15 HERE ▸https://www.merriammusic.com/product/... 💕 Subscribe to Merriam Pianos HERE ▸ http://bit.ly/SubscribeMerriam 🔔 Click the 🔔 bell to be notified of all videos! ▸ http://bit.ly/SubscribeMerriam #YamahaB1 #KawaiK15 #UprightPianos Introduction: The $3000 - 5000 upright piano price range is the most popular in the world. It is dominated by the sale of used Japanese upright pianos from Yamaha and Kawai, but a good number of new instruments have been produced to offer up alternatives. And depending on your own consumer habits, it might beat the somewhat risky proposition of Craigslist & Kijiji hunting for a product most people know virtually nothing about. The market (and Google’s search suggests) consistently put the K15 and b1 into the same camp, and certainly the two brands are always major players in most price points. However, the specs of the two pianos differ in many areas, from the soundboard to the action, and even the frame that holds it all together. So let’s take a look at the similarities, and more importantly, the differences. Comparing Sound: Yamaha typically produces pianos with a strong attack and generally biased towards the treble, making them excellent recording pianos and easy instruments to generate lots of tone. Kawai is known for making pianos of greater tonal range and excellent control, in some cases less powerful than similar Yamaha’s, but with exquisite touch. They’ve also been riding a wave of noticeable momentum since the mid 2000’s, when their K Series uprights, RX grands, Shigeru Kawai CSII series, and CN/CA digital pianos began to be viewed as class leaders in their respective price categories. What makes the B1 such an unfair piano to compare to the K15 is that it is one of the most “unYamaha” pianos I’ve ever reviewed from Yamaha. As we mention in the video, it’s built around a low-cost strung back which offers up laminated soundboard and no backposts, greatly limiting the instruments potential to produce sympathetic tone and sustain. The K15 on the other hand uses a solid spruce soundboard with backposts, and a slightly longer bass string. So even on paper, these two instruments are already not in an apples-to-apples comparison except for their impossibly close price points (they have virtually the same MSRP). The result is that the K15 definitely out-plays the b1, with far better mid-partials, better sustaining treble, and a more powerful bass. But like I said, price is the only thing that really places these two in the same category - comparing solid spruce to laminate boards is a pretty predictable lopsided result. Comparing Action: The K15 uses Kawai’s ABS action, not their latest or greatest, but certainly a proven design and something that comes well regulated and nice and fluid straight from the factory. The action feels slightly more shallow than what I get on the newest K series like the K200, but there’s still plenty of control and of course for fast, soft passages, it’s a dream to play. The Yamaha that we played on was a new example and required some lubrication and regulating to get feeling nice and fluid, but never achieved the same repetition speed and we were still getting some double hits when playing very quietly. For players brand new to the game, I’m sure that both actions will be great and give many years of enjoyment - for experienced players, I wager the K15 is going to be closer to the professional actions to which they might be accustomed. Connect with Merriam Music: ● Website ▸ https://www.merriammusic.com/pianos ● Contact Us ▸ https://www.merriammusic.com/contact/ ● Instagram ▸   / merriammusic   ● Facebook ▸   / merriammusic   ● Twitter ▸   / merriammusicinc