Kawai parts

[Greg Newell]

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Greetings lists,
         I have recently experienced something most puzzling. I ordered new 
damper levers straight from Kawai for a GE-1 played and used heavily by a 
"spirited" church. Is that the politically correct term we use today? 
Anyway, They were to be replaced because somewhere along the line the leads 
in more than a few had fallen out and were missing! The tray blocks and 
flanges also needed replacing as well as hammer re-shaping, tail reshaping 
and a regulation. Now what puzzles me is two fold, 1) why did the 
replacement parts Kawai sent me have most of there leads fallen out in the 
zip lock bag by the time they got to me, and 2) why is the "checkering" of 
the hammer tails done so aggressively as to gouge the backcheck leather? 
The later is not specific to Kawai as I've noticed it on quite a few other 
piano. Mostly cheaper brands which I don't often associate Kawai as being 
one of. I'm sure many of you have run across leads falling out but have you 
ever had the new replacements shipped to you with leads falling out?

Greg Newell
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net 

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