In the upright range, Young Chang offers four different pianos Studio, Institutional, Designer, and Professional. What is available in the new range of upright and grand pianos from Young Chang that certainly looks very fine indeed. Young Chang was present and promoting their products at both 2016/17 NAMM but there is no further information that I can discover relating to more current details about the company. As far as I can ascertain, Delwin Fandrich is renowned as a very fine maker of pianos and is credited with bringing a very high level of engineering to the world of Young Chang pianos. (Remember these are a sub-category of the ‘Bergmann line’). Fandrich is from the information on ‘ Pianos Plus’ not only a contributor to the new design of Young Chang pianos but from 2014 has brought his talents to the name of Weber pianos too. Unfortunately, the takeover was deemed to be an unfair one by the Korean Fair-Trade Commission and this, in turn, led to the bankruptcy of Young Chang. The established Samick Musical Instrument Company purchased a huge amount of the Young Chang stocks in 2004, effectively taking control of the industry. Any company trying to recover from this has a major battle on its hands, especially given the immense rivalry in the market.
Even though the aim in opening this factory was to manufacture entry-level pianos, once the founding and highly experienced workers returned to South Korea, the quality of the instruments dramatically dropped.
Where the questions surrounding the quality of the Bergmann (Young Chang) pianos may herald from is the fact that shortly after Young Chang opened a $40 million factory in China (Tianjin), the Korean piano technicians did not remain at the plant. ‘Weber Pianos’ was founded in 1986 and like Young Chang, is available today. Interestingly, Young Chang also manufactures ‘Weber’ pianos, a name adopted knowing the European bias towards the German piano manufacturers. Today, they are still producing pianos and remain amongst the largest manufactures of pianos.
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