A 168 cm grand. This is where the instrument starts sounding like what people picture. It is the shortest Numbered we list.
Photos of the actual piano on request. Tell us your room and floor and we will say if it fits.
Yamaha
In the price, not added at the end.
The honest version. We would rather talk you out of the wrong piano than deliver it and hear about it later.
Balanced rather than spectacular. For a room in a house that is exactly right. Against the Yamaha No. 30 it is 15 cm shorter and 30 kg lighter.
Middling for weight in a range that spans 255 kg to 480 kg.
Two pedals, which is normal for its generation and market. We will say if the one on the floor has had a third added.
Yamaha is the brighter and quicker of the two, which is why exam candidates keep asking for one. Some players find the treble tiring over long sessions. Which you prefer is genuinely personal, and twenty minutes at the shop settles it faster than any description.
300 kg. We walk the route before the day rather than discovering it on the morning.
Nothing else we list from Yamaha is exactly 168 cm long, so it sits on its own in the range. If the 20 is not on the floor when you ask, the table below is where we would send you next.
| Model | Length | Weight | Width |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yamaha No. 20 This model | 168 cm | 300 kg | 148 cm |
| Yamaha G2A | 169 cm | 300 kg | 148 cm |
| Yamaha G2 | 173 cm | 300 kg | 149 cm |
| Yamaha G1 | 161 cm | 290 kg | 149 cm |
What you are buying is the rebuild, not the badge. Two No. 20s can be thousands of ringgit apart depending on what was replaced and how the last owner kept it.
Tune it twice a year. Not because it gets played hard, but because the soundboard moves with the weather and takes the tuning with it.
If you are not ready to commit, rent one by the month. Decide to keep it and the rent you have paid comes off the purchase price.
Yamaha's earliest grand numbering, before the G and C lines replaced it. Two-pedal instruments built for the domestic Japanese market.
168 cm long, 148 cm wide, 101 cm tall, and about 300 kg. On a grand the length is the number that matters, because it sets the bass string length and the floor space you need.
You need about 2.1 m across and roughly 3.9 m² with room to sit and pass. 300 kg. We walk the route before the day rather than discovering it on the morning. Give us the measurements and the access and we will be straight about whether it works.
What you are buying is the rebuild, not the badge. Two No. 20s can be thousands of ringgit apart depending on what was replaced and how the last owner kept it. It carries a five-year warranty on parts and labour, honoured by the workshop that did the work.
Rent-to-own runs on a separate pool that changes weekly, so we cannot promise a 20 specifically. Ask what is free now. Rent for six months, buy it, and those six months come off the price.
Ask, because it changes week to week. When we are out, we say so rather than steer you into whatever is on the floor.
Twice a year. Tune it twice a year. Not because it gets played hard, but because the soundboard moves with the weather and takes the tuning with it. The first two tunings are on us, once it has settled in.
Ask what is actually in the shop today. We will send photos of the specific piano, tell you what was replaced in the rebuild, and be honest if another model fits you better.