09/08/2026
🎹 For Sale — 2004 Kemble CLA-T | $3,895 including delivery
Every now and again, you come across a piano with a particularly interesting — and slightly mysterious — provenance. In this case, it results in something of the best of both worlds.
This Kemble CLA-T, manufactured in England in 2004, comes from a fascinating period in British piano manufacturing.
Kemble was a long-established English piano maker which became closely intertwined with Yamaha during the 1980s. From 1985, the Kemble factory began manufacturing Yamaha pianos for the European market, and Yamaha subsequently acquired a majority interest in the company.
The result was an unusual marriage of Japanese Yamaha engineering and British piano manufacture.
The CLA-T is very much a product of that relationship. Beneath the Kemble name is an instrument heavily based around Yamaha design and engineering, but with Kemble giving the piano its own character through differences in materials, voicing and presentation.
In other words, you get much of the dependability, action design and engineering for which Yamaha uprights are renowned, but with a somewhat more European tonal character.
This particular piano isn’t cosmetically perfect — there are a handful of minor blemishes — but musically it is in excellent condition. It has a responsive action, an excellent tone and, having been built in 2004, has decades of useful musical life ahead of it.
It isn’t an “heirloom” piano in the sense of a handmade European instrument costing tens of thousands of dollars. What it is, however, is a very well-built professional-quality upright that should comfortably serve a student, teacher or family for many years to come.
$3,895 including delivery to Sydney, Canberra, Armidale or Tamworth.
🎹 Kemble CLA-T
🇬🇧 Made in England
📅 2004
🇯🇵 Built during Kemble’s Yamaha-owned era
🔧 Inspected, serviced and tuned
🚚 Delivery included to Sydney, Canberra, Armidale or Tamworth
Video demonstration available. Please feel free to message me with any questions.
