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Yamaha U Series

For more than fifty years, the U Series has held its place as the world’s most popular upright, the benchmark that other uprights are still judged against. Every U1 and U3 is built by Yamaha in Kakegawa, Japan, around a solid spruce soundboard hand-selected at the Kitami Mill in Hokkaido, a V-Pro Vacuum Shield Mold frame cast at the Iwata Forge, five spruce back posts, and Yamaha’s patented aluminum action rail, which keeps the action stable as humidity and temperature move through the seasons. It comes in two heights: the 48-inch U1 and the 52-inch U3.

Yamaha U1 Upright Pianos

The U1 is the 48-inch upright that made Yamaha’s name, a long-standing favorite of professionals and teachers that sets the standard other uprights are measured by. Built in Japan, it brings together the Kitami Mill solid spruce soundboard, pure copper bass strings hand-wound by Yamaha artisans in Kakegawa, and the V-Pro frame, producing the precise, responsive touch and clear, full-bodied tone the series is famous for. This is the professional upright stripped to its essentials.
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    Yamaha U1 Upright Piano | Polished Ebony

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  • Yamaha U1 Upright Piano in Polished Mahogany Finish

    Yamaha U1 Upright Piano | Polished Mahogany

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  • Yamaha U1 Upright Piano in Polished White Finish

    Yamaha U1 Upright Piano | Polished White

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  • Yamaha U1 Upright Piano in Satin American Walnut Finish

    Yamaha U1 Upright Piano | Satin American Walnut

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  • Yamaha U1 Upright Piano in Satin Ebony Finish

    Yamaha U1 Upright Piano | Satin Ebony

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Yamaha U3 Upright Pianos

Taller than the U1 by four inches, the 52-inch U3 puts that added cabinet to work. Its larger soundboard and acoustic chamber give it noticeably more power and projection, paired with the same celebrated Yamaha action found across the series. Underneath, it shares the U1’s hand-selected solid spruce soundboard, V-Pro frame, and hand-wound copper bass strings. If you want fuller volume and deeper bass and still want a U Series instrument, the U3 delivers it.
  • Yamaha U3 Upright Piano in Polished Ebony Finish

    Yamaha U3 Upright Piano | Polished Ebony

    $16,099.00
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  • Yamaha U3 Upright Piano in Polished Mahogany Finish

    Yamaha U3 Upright Piano | Polished Mahogany

    $18,499.00
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  • Yamaha U3 Upright Piano in Polished White Finish

    Yamaha U3 Upright Piano | Polished White

    $18,499.00
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  • Yamaha U3 Upright Piano in Polished Mahogany Finish

    Yamaha U3 Upright Piano | Satin American Walnut

    $18,499.00
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U Series Silent Pianos

A U Series Silent model is a full acoustic U1 or U3 with Yamaha’s SH3 Silent system integrated. Switch it on, and the strings fall silent while you keep playing the real keys and action, with the sound routed to your headphones. What you hear is sampled from the Yamaha CFX concert grand, the system Yamaha calls the first in the industry built around a full CFX sound source. The result is one piano that plays out loud during the day and privately after hours.
  • Yamaha U1 SH3 Silent Upright Piano

    Yamaha U1 SH3 Silent Upright Piano

    $17,349.00
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    Yamaha U3 SH3 Silent Upright Piano

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U Series Disklavier Piano

The DU1 ENST takes a U1 and adds Yamaha’s ENSPIRE ST Disklavier system, a reproducing piano that records your playing and performs it back on its own keys. It includes full recording and playback, the built-in Yamaha Silent system, and Yamaha’s DSP Servo Drive for accurate reproduction. Load or stream a performance and watch the keys move on their own, or capture your own session note for note. ENSPIRE ST is available on the U1.

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    DU1 ENST Yamaha Disklavier

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U Series Transacoustic Pianos

The TransAcoustic models, U1 TA3 and U3 TA3, turn the piano’s own soundboard into the speaker. An ultra-light transducer feeds digital sound straight into the soundboard as vibration, so voices such as the Yamaha CFX and Bosendorfer Imperial concert grands come alive through real wood instead of external speakers, at whatever volume suits the room. Play it as a pure acoustic, raise or lower the digital sound, move to headphones, or link a smart device over Bluetooth. TA3 carries 25 playable voices and is offered on both the U1 and U3, with no compromise to the tone of a genuine Yamaha upright.
  • Yamaha U1 TA3 TransAcoustic upright piano in Polished Ebony

    Yamaha U1 TA3 TransAcoustic Piano

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  • Yamaha U3 TA3 TransAcoustic Upright Piano in Polished Ebony

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    $22,999.00
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