He just thinks that if I were to get serious about playing and would play it everyday, I should go with the Yamaha.

After all, it does cost $700 more than the Yamaha. Let me clarify that the sales person did not say that the Schimmel is an awful piano. I felt that the sales person wants me to get what's appropriate for me rather than buying into the name of Schimmel. Yes, especially that the Schimmel is of higher price. Not because Yamaha is a better brand of piano, but because that particular Yamaha is better than that particular Schimmel.' 'The person you spoke with may have been giving you good advice to go with the Yamaha, feeling it was a better instrument. Recent experience with a brand new Schimmel 121 suggests to me that that in this generation of upright instruments I prefer Yamaha, but of course you're talking about older instruments so this is not really relevant. The Schimmel really does not seem to lose out because of it's size, and certainly I think I prefer the 118 to the similarly sized Yamahas. It's possibly interesting that I happily compare my small(ish) Schimmel with the much larger Yamaha. The Schimmel's action is heavier than the Yamaha's (I can't remember whether it was lighter when I got it brand new all those years ago, and of course I was very young then and enjoyed playing loudly all the time!) and you may find the same difference. Personally I think that they're both superb in their own way: both, as has been said in this thread, on the bright side - but I like that. I have a twenty year old Schimmel 118T at home and a fairly new (about a year and a half) Yamaha U5 at work, so I've pretty good experience of both makes. So, if you have a loud Yamaha to begin with, it will get louder and louder as it ages. On the other hand, I once heard that a piano would get brighter as it ages. The Schimmel is more for prestige it'd make a nice piece of furniture in your house, it's not for a pianist. Just when I was going to go with the Schimmel, the store owner told me that I'm better of with the Yamaha if I were to eventually get back into playing piano again. I like them both depending on the type of music. As for the Yamaha, the sound is very bright (typical Yamaha) and more pure and stable. Whereas, the Schimmel is a beautiful 48' white lacquer Crown series, made in ~1995, and the store is asking for $4200.Įven though the Schimmel is shorter, but it sounds a lot deeper than the Yamaha. The Yamaha is a 50' UX-2 made in ~1985, and the store is asking for $3500.

I was looking for a decent used Yamaha and came upon a Schimmel which I'm totally not familiar with, but immediately fell in love with.

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