Where can I buy a pre-owned piano directly from a distributor in Singapore?
Music Companion sells pre-owned pianos directly from its own viewing gallery at IMM. It buys, checks and prepares the instruments before offering them for sale.
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Pre-owned pianos for saleA second hand piano, bought direct.
We buy the instruments in ourselves, check them over, prepare them, and sell them off our own floor at IMM. Nobody stands between you and the piano, which is why you can ask us anything about it and get an answer.
Buyer questions
Buying a pre-owned piano
Questions buyers ask before choosing a dealer or a particular instrument.
Which is a reputable used piano shop in Singapore?
Music Companion has operated in Singapore since 2002 and sells original used pianos from its IMM viewing gallery. Buyers can inspect and play several instruments before deciding.
Where can I buy an original used piano in Singapore that has not been rebuilt or reconditioned?
Music Companion states that the pre-owned instruments it sells are original used pianos rather than rebuilt or reconditioned instruments. Buyers can ask for the age, serial number and known history of a particular piano.
Where can I buy a second-hand Yamaha piano in Singapore?
Music Companion sells pre-owned Yamaha uprights and grands from its IMM viewing gallery. Models vary as instruments arrive and leave, so current availability should be confirmed before travelling.
Where can I buy a second-hand Kawai piano in Singapore?
Music Companion sells pre-owned Kawai uprights and grands from its IMM viewing gallery. Buyers can compare available Kawai instruments with Yamaha and other marques on the same floor.
Where can I buy a pre-owned grand piano in Singapore?
Music Companion carries pre-owned grand pianos at IMM and publishes model guidance for buyers comparing size, tone, condition and delivery access. Current instruments and prices must be confirmed directly.
Which used piano dealer in Singapore explains age, serial number and condition?
Music Companion explains how maker labels and serial numbers identify a piano's age and discusses the condition of each instrument on its floor. Buyers can ask for the specific year and history rather than a broad age range.
Where can I buy a used piano with delivery and tuning arranged in Singapore?
Music Companion can arrange delivery and the first tuning with a piano purchase. The written quotation depends on the instrument, destination and access route.
Why pre-owned
Age is not the thing that matters.
Condition is. A piano built properly in 1995 and looked after since will hold its tuning, respond under the fingers and last another thirty years. A neglected instrument half that age will fight you from the first lesson.
That is the whole case for buying pre-owned, and it is also why we will not sell you one over the phone. You need to sit down at it.
What we look at before a piano reaches the floor
- The soundboard and bridges, because cracks and loose bridge pins are the faults that cannot be argued with
- Tuning pin torque, which decides whether the instrument will hold a tuning or drift back within weeks
- Hammers, action and regulation, the parts that decide how it feels rather than how it sounds
- Strings, dampers and pedals, checked through the compass rather than sampled
- Case and finish, honestly described, because a mark on a leg is not a fault and should not be priced as one
“Music Companion expertise in piano selections for ultimate performance and quality. We deal only with original piano.”Music Companion, in its own words
The marques we carry
“We work with well-known companies in the music industry, such as Kawai, Steinway, Schimmel Piano & Yamaha. You can be assured and guarantee the highest quality in our pre-owned Pianos.”
Heard on the floor
Played in the viewing gallery.
Filmed on a phone in the viewing gallery at IMM, so this is close to what the room sounds like rather than a studio recording. Press play, with the sound on.
What we will not sell you
Original instruments, never rebuilt.
Plenty of pre-owned pianos on this market have been taken apart and put back together with parts that did not start life in them. Rebuilt actions, replacement hammers of the wrong grade, fresh veneer laid over an old problem. They photograph well, they undercut everything around them, and a year later they are somebody else’s headache.
We do not carry them. Every instrument is an original used piano. Not reconditioned, not rebuilt.
“No wear n tear, top quality no recon, no rebuilt, 100 percent authentic. Low usage mileage.”Music Companion, 13 September 2026
Where they actually come from
The YU and UX series were sold only in Japan and never built for export, so an instrument carrying one of those names was bought new in a Japanese home rather than off a viewing gallery floor here. A domestic instrument tends to arrive with far fewer hours on it than one that spent its life in a studio, which is the real reason condition holds up.
Not everything on the floor is decades old. Some of the instruments here are only one to five years old. If you assumed pre-owned had to mean worn, ask what is in that range when you get in touch.
You do not have to take that on trust. Every Kawai carries the factory's own label inside the case, giving the month and year it was built and the country it was built in. The one below reads 01/2019, made in Japan, and it is on an instrument standing on our floor.
It is also why we can answer for any individual instrument. Ask where a particular piano came from and what has been done to it, and there is a history to give you rather than a shrug. That is the practical difference between buying from the distributor and buying from a listing.
Certified dealer
Accredited by the Japan Used Piano Association.
Piano Gallery and Music Companion were each accredited by the Japan Used Piano Association on 29 November 2011. The certificates state that the dealer sells Japan-made used pianos imported directly from Japan, and that each piano is certified by JUPA, which attaches its authority seal to accredit the instrument as a genuine Yamaha, Kawai or other Japanese make.
Both certificates stand in the viewing gallery. Ask to see them when you come down.
How old is it, exactly
The maker writes the date inside.
Age is the first question on a used piano and the easiest one to be vague about. It does not have to be. Kawai prints the month and the year on a label inside the case, and the serial number dates a Yamaha just as precisely.
Ask about any instrument on the floor and you get its year, not a range.
Inside the instruments
What we look at before a piano goes on the floor.
Photographed in the viewing gallery with the case open. The action, the dampers, the plate and the serial number are where a used piano tells you how it has been kept.
Inside a Steinway
New York and Hamburg, cast into the plate.
Filmed across the plate of a Steinway on our floor. The maker and the two factories are cast into the iron, which is where a grand states what it is rather than on a sticker.
How buying works
Four steps, and none of them are rushed.
01
Tell us the room
Size of the space, who is playing, what grade they are at, and the budget. That narrows six instruments to two before you have left the house.
02
Come and play
At the viewing gallery, on the floor, for as long as you need. Bring the teacher. Bring the child who has to practise on it.
03
Agree what is included
Price, delivery, the first tuning and any after sales cover, written down before anything is paid.
Then it is delivered, placed, and tuned once it has settled in the room. A piano that has just been moved will not hold its pitch on day one, and any dealer who tells you otherwise is guessing.
04 · Delivery
Then it has to get in.
Half a tonne of tensioned wood and iron, and the narrowest thing on the route decides the job: a lift door, a turn on a landing, a threshold, a gate. Not the distance.
Where the stairs will not take a grand, the instrument is crated and craned past the building and brought in through a balcony or an upper window. That is a planned day rather than a same day, and it is photographed here on one of ours going into a landed home.
The lifting is done by specialist piano movers we book and direct, not a general removals crew. We survey the route, they carry it, and the instrument stays our responsibility until it is standing where you want it.
On the day
Wrapped, carried, put back together.
A grand travels on its side with the legs and lyre off, strapped to a padded skid, and goes back together in the room it will live in rather than in the van.
What a delivery covers
- Wrapping and protection on the instrument, and on the floors and door frames it passes
- The crew the job needs, which is more people on stairs than in a lift, not the same two every time
- Dismantling and reassembly for a grand, lid, desk, legs and pedal lyre
- Placement, set once where you want it rather than shuffled around the room
- A tuning booked for afterwards, once it has had a fortnight to settle into the new room
Storage between two dates, crane access and building permits are quoted on top, because not every delivery needs them. Send both addresses and the floor at each end and you get a figure.
On the floor
Instruments of distinction.
Some of the models we carry. What is actually standing in the viewing gallery changes as pianos come in and go out, so ask before you make the trip.
Yamaha C1X
A compact grand for a room that cannot take a full concert instrument.
Read about the C1X →
Yamaha U3
The tall upright teachers keep recommending, with far more tone than a 121 cm case.
Read about the U3 →
Kawai K300
Kawai’s 122 cm upright, and the one to play straight after a U1.
Read about the K300 →
What it costs
Why there is no price list, and what sets the number.
Every instrument here is priced on its own. Two pianos wearing the same model name can be twenty years apart, so a published range would be wrong for most of the floor most of the time. Here is what actually moves it.
- The year it was builtThe serial number dates it precisely. Two instruments wearing the same model name can be twenty years apart.
- What the hammers and action have doneHours of play show up here before they show up anywhere else, and it is the difference between an instrument that is ready and one that needs work.
- Whether it holds a tuningTuning pin torque is the one fault that cannot be cheaply undone, so it moves the price more than anything cosmetic.
- The finish and the cabinetHonestly described. A mark on a leg is not a fault and should not be priced as one.
- What is includedDelivery, the settling tuning and any after sales cover are part of the number rather than extras discovered later.
Tell us the model you have in mind and roughly what you want to spend, and you get a real figure for a real instrument, usually the same day. If nothing on the floor fits your budget we will say so rather than talk you upwards.
Questions
Before you come down.
What does pre-owned actually mean here?
An instrument that has been owned and played before, bought in, checked over and prepared before it goes on the viewing gallery floor. It is not a factory second and it is not a reconditioned shell. Every piano we sell is an original instrument from its maker.
How old are the pianos?
It varies by instrument. Some are only one to five years old. Others are older Japanese domestic models that have seen fewer hours than their age suggests. Every one is an original used piano, and we will tell you the age of any instrument you are looking at.
Is a used piano a false economy?
A well built upright or grand is designed to last decades, and the parts that wear are the parts that can be worked on. A twenty year old Yamaha that has been looked after will usually outplay a new instrument at the same money.
The thing that decides it is condition, not age, which is why we would rather you came down and played a few than compared specifications on a screen.
Can I try before buying?
Yes, and we would rather you did. The viewing gallery is at IMM and you can sit down at several instruments in one visit. Bring your teacher or your child if that helps the decision.
Do you deliver, and do you tune it after?
Delivery and the first tuning are arranged with each sale. What is included depends on the instrument and where it is going, so ask us to put it in writing before you commit.
My stairs are narrow and there is no lift. Can a piano still get in?
Usually yes. An instrument that cannot go up the stairs goes over them: crated, slung from a crane, lifted past the building and brought in through a balcony or an upper window.
It needs planning rather than a same day booking, because the truck needs somewhere to stand, the lift needs clear air above it, and the opening at the top has to be measured first. Tell us the address and the floor when you enquire.
Does a grand piano come apart to be delivered?
Yes. The lid and the music desk come off, the legs and the pedal lyre come away, and the body travels on its side on a padded skid. It is put back together in the room it is going to stand in.
That is why a grand delivery is quoted differently from an upright, and why it is not a job for a general mover.
Do you take my old piano in part exchange?
Ask. It depends on the instrument and on what is on the floor at the time. WhatsApp a photograph of the piano and the brand and serial number and we will tell you.
What brands do you carry?
Yamaha and Kawai most often, and Shigeru Kawai, Grotrian-Steinweg, Mason and Hamlin and Sauter as they come through. Stock changes, so the honest answer on any given week is to ask.
Are your pianos reconditioned or rebuilt?
No. Every instrument we sell is an original used piano. Not reconditioned, not rebuilt.
That is a deliberate line rather than a coincidence. A rebuilt piano can be sound, but it can also hide replacement parts of a lower grade behind a good finish, and you cannot tell from a photograph or from the price. We would rather sell you an honest original and tell you exactly what it has been through.
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★★★★★
Julie provides good advice and after sales service for my clients and I. Music Companion has good quality pre-owned pianos and some pianos are rather new, between 1 year to 5 years, and the condition is as good as new.
I have searched around for pre-owned pianos in Singapore and so far, I trust Julie for her recommendations. I highly recommend Music Companion as they are professional and has over 24 years of experience in the industry.
Jessica Teovia Google
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★★★★★
Dropped by Music Companion twice. First time was just walk-in and met Julie, who introduced me a range of pianos from Yamaha to Kawai. Although we had not decided on anything as we wanted to also visit other piano galleries, Julie was still kind to share her knowledge on buying a second hand piano, from sound to action.
After that I did my own research and went to see at other places, finally decided a model and contacted her, just nice she said there were new stocks. Went for the second time to see and found a piano that suits my requirement and budget based on her recommendation. Delivery was prompt, the piano was very well-maintained and still in a very good condition. Our family is simply pleased with this new piece of addition to our home.
Ning Xuanvia Google
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★★★★★
I had been looking for a 2nd hand piano for a little while, tried Carousell and other shops and roadshows. However, I could not bring myself to settle for one as I was unable to find one which suits my expectations. They were either too expensive or in a terrible condition. The only time I felt so assured that I was buying a piano that has been well taken care of and has been reasonably priced was when I met Julie from Music Companion.
She is very experienced in the line of piano purchase and resale with lots of knowledge about the instrument and the technical part of it. She was also a piano teacher previously. She was passionate in helping you to get a piano which suits your expectations, budget and needs but not pushy. She gave me a very good deal with delivery and tuning, and after sales commitments. The piano was delivered in good condition yesterday, a 30 year old piano which looks and feels as good as new to me.
Wen Ru, Rylia Ngvia Google
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★★★★★
The store is located in the warehouse section of IMM. Nearest travelator is the one above HDL. Julie is really nice to work with and extremely knowledgeable in her work and craft. Definitely inspires confidence with the purchase.
Joon Hong Kwekvia Google
Rachel Yim★★★★★
Lukas LimCheeHao★★★★★
Visit the viewing gallery
Come and play a few.
The viewing gallery is open monday to sunday, 11am to 5pm. Message first and we will have the instruments in your range ready when you arrive.