Description
The YUS-5 is designed for the experienced pianist and professional musician. This 52" Professional Upright piano features a center Sostenuto pedal, with Ivorite/WPC (Wood Process Composite) key tops, Walnut hammer molding and outstanding tone, touch and durability. Made in Japan.
New Super U Series
- 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
- Beveled music rack
- Spruce keys with hardwood buttons
- Grand piano key travel
- Cut thread tuning pins
- Sostenuto pedal and mute lever
- Yamaha designed hammers with T-fasteners
- Vacuum Shield Mold Process (V-Pro) plate
- Seasoned for destination
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.
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.
