The number stamped on the back of the neck plate is not a serial number but a Fender model ID number. Using the table below this number can be translated into the year/model Fender being copied. Tokai added the 'L' in front of serial numbers starting in 1981. I used to have a steady club gig and there was this shiny beautiful looking baby grand there, it was a Tokai. Never seen or heard of one since, and I hope I never do! Makes a Pearl River seem like a Hamburg Steinway or Sauter (my preferred brands). Young Changs aren't so bad imo; I like their tone. The actions on the first ones that came top the USA were pretty horrible. I had another steady gig, this one on a Young Chang, and I had to pull certain keys back up after about every 20 times that I depressed them. ![]() I assumed that this was the proximity of the piano to the ocean (about 500 ft.) but other pianists and some tuner/techs have told me it was the piano, which held tune very well btw. I've heard that they've worked the bugs out of their action. Haven't played one in quite a while though. Wurlitzer (or whoever owns them or the name now) has been making some rather crap pianos over the past six years or so, played two that were just awful. Arensky's right about wurlitzer, too. I grew up with one and the day it left the house i celebrated. Driver 82579lm gigabit network. It was good at the time, i guess, being a beginner. Once, in a mission near camarillo, played a piano with 12 pedals. I can't remember the name of the piano - but practically all the pedals were broken - and my husband was supposed to sing. Some of the notes stuck down on the keyboard, too, and i literally had to retrieve them each time i played them. That was the ultimate worst piano. Nowdays i have more of a semblance of self-worth as a pianist. ![]() I would simply say - this piano is crap. Let him sing a capella. The Young Chang piano sells not so good in China though they had been in China for years. The iron frame is vacuum-founded but the workers are not so proficient(the number of the professional technician is limited compared with the speed of their development). So the touch and the soundis not so good. The Pearl River company is the biggest state-owned piano company in China and produce the largest quantity in the market.Maybe they produce too much and too fast, so their pianos have no characteristics.they are for public. The joke of the piano. My grandmother's apartment building has a balcony/entertainment room upstairs with a seemingly old upright Wurlitzer. It is far and away more a toy to amuse myself with and laugh at than a piano. It sounds like one of Cage's 'prepared pianos' but, sadly, is not. It has the WORST sound (metallic and dull) with absolutely NO dynamics. The top registers have absolutely zero resonance, and the bottom. 6 keys all sound identical; like metallic, dull piano-farts. If you can ever find one, definitely grab it. You will never cease to be amused at how awful it is. Debussy is especially hilarious on the Wurlitzer. Wow, this thread is getting the worst out of some people. Bernhard, sorry, but if you mean you don't like Bechsteins, I have to say you loose points in my esteem meter (not that you should care, I have in good steem anyway, but c'mon, Bechsteins are world class pianos). One question is what pianos get to dreadful faster, and I would say the old Asian-made uprights and mini grands have a great lead there. The other is what pianos cannot be made fine no matter what you do to them. I would put 90% of uprights there anyway, because I don't like them in general, but hey, if you can't afford a 7 footer and you can learn on an upright, by all means. I destroyed a poor Daneman during my teens when I fantasized about playing lots of Rachmaninov, loud Brahms and loads of Liszt. Had I been infatuated with Haydn and Scarlatti that piano would still be in great shape. I have played absolutely delightful Wurlitzers. A 7 footer comes to mind that was much better than and Steinway B I have played (save James Tocco's B, which did not sound or feel like a B at all).
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