Lid replacement

[Gatesfam6@AOL.COM]

Chris,
   As an institutional tuner/tech I have nearly 600 pianos under contact. Of 
those 600 roughly 400 are Kawai's, about 50 grands of the KG-2 series, And 
350 uprights with most of those being UST-7 models. For the most part I like 
the Kawai Piano but as of late the company has been experiencing problems 
with the folks that have been supplying their cases, which has caused them to 
change their supplier once or twice over the last year and a half, or so I' 
am told. I'm not sure what model your client has, but with the UST-7 during 
assembly the underside of the lids were being finished resulting in a very 
week adhesion between the lid and the piano back assembly. The end results 
were obvious the lids were popping off right and left. I've had to reglue no 
less than a dozen within the last 6 months alone. Kawai will advise you to 
use the Epoxy which I'm sure will work fine, but the best stuff I've found is 
heavy duty construction adhesive. Get a tube slap it in your caulking gun, 
and your ready to apply. The larger bead of glue gives you better coverage, 
and you have a few minutes before it sets up. The good news is that lid will 
not be coming off again... the bad news, that lid will not be coming off 
again. Kawai has also been experiencing problems with the installation, and 
proper placement of the action stack  as well but that's a subject for 
another time.

Happy adhering,
Paul Gates RPT