In this day and age of pianos and technical advancement many lower priced pianos will perform within the realm of some of the most expensive pianos. If they designed a better piano with better parts than it does! Also a smaller piano company (ie: lesser advertised piano) could produce a superior product in design and materials yet save great quantities of money not paying to advertise their products. Therefore, a NAME brand (or more advertised piano name) doesn't necessarily make for a better piano. The materials and design specifications that pianos are made of produce the tone and touch of any given piano. Quality control from a good quality piano factory in China will match the best Japanese piano factories, and depending on the models, they will sometimes exceed them. Such generalizations I hear on almost a daily bases, like, Pianos made in Japan are better than pianos made in China or Indonesia and the like. while this may have been true 10 to 15 years ago. The piano industry is a very fast paced quickly changing industry that does not lend itself well to generalizations. There are many different answers and in many cases they are all correct answers. Perzina (carl ebel with laminated soundboard) Samick Stencil (all stencil pianos Kohler & Campbell, Conover Cable, etc.) Boston (baby grands and grands built for Steinway by Kawai) These are good but very massed produced pianos and in a price rage of average households. Solid pianos suitable for performance, but made for institutional purpose or practice at home. Most are limited production, handmade pianos.Īlthough not world class, these are very high quality and still some of the best pianos in the world.

These pianos are built and perform to the highest standards. Group A - World class, high performance pianos. This is only my opinion of the quality ranking of the various pianos and is not a definitive list of piano manufacturers. The Quality of pianos listed in descending order.

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