Yamaha U3

Designed for the experienced pianist and professional musician. Upright pianos with outstanding tone, touch and durability.

An expansive soundboard and acoustic chamber give the 131 cm (52″) U3 extended power and projection, with the peerless tonal and expressive control of the legendary Yamaha action.

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Description

Product Description

Yamaha U Series upright pianos have long been a leading choice for educational institutions, professional musicians and discriminating home pianists. Now, thanks to comprehensive redesign, these world-standard instruments are better than ever, with numerous advances in materials and construction. Refined scale designs and components improve tonal performance, while other modifications enhance strength and durability. Extra-wide music desks provide plenty of room for sheet music. And the top-of-the-line sets extraordinary standards of elegance and excellence, incorporating concepts adapted from Yamaha grand pianos.

Features

Seasoned for Destination

Yamaha specifically seasons this piano for the U.S. market. The tuning stability, finish and overall musical integrity are enhanced over the long life expected of a fine piano.

MAIN FEATURES

  • Full length ribs into a notched liner
  • Solid spruce soundboard and ribs
  • Acoustibars
  • Solid copper wound bass strings
  • Hard maple bridges
  • Aluminum alloy action rails
  • Yamaha balanced action
  • Spruce keys with hardwood buttons
  • Grand piano key travel
  • Cut thread tuning pins
  • Mute pedal of the U1–U3
  • Yamaha designed hammers with T-fasteners
  • Polyester finish
  • Resin sheet foundation
  • Vacuum Shield Mold Process (V-Pro) plate
  • Seasoned for destination

Spruce Soundboard

At the Yamaha lumber mill and wood processing facility, the finest spruce is quarter sawn; and less than 10% of the total is selected and reserved for Yamaha piano soundboards. Solid spruce, rather than laminated spruce or poplar, is the choice in all fine pianos for the best amplification of sound, best tone and sustain.

Full Length Ribs

Yamaha reinforces the crown in its soundboards by using ribs that continue to the edge of the soundboard, and are glued into the notched liner (or inner rim on the grand piano). Reinforcing the crown ensures that the tone quality will remain for years and years and improves tuning stability.

V-Pro Plate

Yamaha uses V-Pro (Vacuum Shield Mold Process) in casting the iron frame (plate). V-Pro plates are stronger and visually more appealing. Critical dimensions are produced more accurately than before.

Metal Action Rails

Yamaha engineering developed a unique Extruded Aluminum Alloy Action Rail (bearing a Yamaha patent) that is one of the best innovations for improving a piano action in the last 100 years. The usual fluctuations in wood rails that effect touch, caused by periodic weather changes, are eliminated allowing stable, long-lasting action regulation.

Balanced Action

Each key of a Yamaha piano is individually tested and measured for the corrections needed to obtain uniform “down weight” pressure. Yamaha actions play correctly and uniformly. This balancing helps ensure a lifetime of superior touch and control across the keyboard.

Uniform Key Travel

Yamaha designs all grand and vertical pianos to have the same key travel. Regardless of size, type or model of Yamaha piano, the keyboards will always feel the same.

Spruce Keys

Yamaha uses Spruce for the keys on all models of pianos. Spruce is very light and possesses a very high ratio of strength to weight. It is ideal for key construction, even though its cost is greater than either sugar pine or bass wood. Yamaha keyboards respond quickly providing fast repetition for the most intricate piece of music. Yamaha keyboards withstand heavy use over years of fortissimo passages.

Finishes

Polished Ebony, Polished Mahogany.

Specs

Specifications

Speaking Length of #1 bass string 47.5″
Hammer Weight 22 lbs.
Soundboard Dimension 2369 square inches
Material Spruce
Back Post Material Spruce
V-Pro Plate Yes
Bridge Material Hard Maple
Pinblock Material Hard Maple
Tuning Pins Cut thread
Center Pedal Mute
Metal Action Rail Yes
Seasoned for Destination Yes
Soft-Close Fallboard Yes
Keyboard 88 keys
Pedals Soft Pedal, Mute Pedal, Damper Pedal
Finishes Polished Ebony, Polished Mahogany
Also available as Silent Series: U3SG

Dimensions

Height 52″
Width 60″
Length 26″
Weight 517 lbs.
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