This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Gee, I'm sorry Don. Of course, you are the final authority, but I = couldn't remember if it was twenty or thirty gains per inch. Sure Looks = like thirty. Anyway, nice really tight grain. Very uniform grain. Good = boards. I think that our dealership does offer a pretty good price on these, = but not below a certain level.=20 Hey, I'm a tech, not a salesperson, and I have seen the right = salespeople offer a rock bottom deal to a "player", knowing that word of = mouth works better sometimes than paid advertising. And after someone = who can really play tries one, you can tell that they are sold.=20 Unfortunately, sometimes real players are not the ones who can = afford the really nice ones. Kevin E. Ramsey ramsey@extremezone.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Donald Mannino=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:21 PM Subject: Re: S. Kawai Hi Kevin, Sorry, I appreciate your posts, but I need to correct a few small = things. Unless your dealer is offering some funny discounts, I think the = prices are quite a bit higher than the standard Yamaha pianos. I have = no idea how much the Yamaha S pianos cost, though, so maybe you meant = the Shigeru Kawai is similar to them. Also, 30 grains per inch is a kind of tight for a good soundboard. = They maintain a fairly consistent 14 grains per inch, and don't want to = go finer than that or the board would likely be too stiff. The main = thing about the boards is that the spruce is air-dried for so long = before the final seasoning. I think this makes a big difference in the = tone. They sure are nice to play, aren't they? I sometimes spend part of my = lunch break practicing on one of them. We have a mighty nice SK-6 in = the Kawai showroom right now that I have trouble staying away from. Don Mannino At 08:13 PM 1/25/01 -0700, you wrote: Terry wrote: How does price compare to a similar size Yamaha? =20 Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com =20 =20 Very slightly more, but have you ever seen a Yamaha "S" series? = They were hand made too, and you can tell, so I believe the Shigeru's = are just as good, but more reasonably priced than the handmade Yamaha's. = And for all of you that have been asking, yes, they are really = "hand made". Every technician (There are only twenty) who builds these, = work by themselves in a corner of the manufacturing plant. They are the = Concert Techs for Kawai, training in Europe, and they also get to hand = select the best materials over anything they have. The soundboards have = a minimum of about 30 grains per inch. You get what you pay for, ( as opposed to "You get what you = think you're paying for".) =20 =20 =20 Kevin E. Ramsey ramsey@extremezone.com ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/cd/09/9a/1d/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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