This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment And another BTW, I'd really wait until you hear from Don Mannino on = this, before you do anything. I've worked on quite a few GE-1s and I've = never seen anything like what you're telling us. Their tails are not so = rough as to need attention. Are you sure you're not talking about a = Samick? Kawai, long ago, understood the principle of "opposing arch's" of = movement enough to know that you don't need that kind of aggressive = checkering. And what the heck happened to the flanges? They're ABS! We have no = problems with them, EVER! ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Greg Newell=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org ; MPT@philbondi.com=20 Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 9:44 PM Subject: Kawai parts Greetings lists, I have recently experienced something most puzzling. I = ordered new=20 damper levers straight from Kawai for a GE-1 played and used heavily = by a=20 "spirited" church. Is that the politically correct term we use today?=20 Anyway, They were to be replaced because somewhere along the line the = leads=20 in more than a few had fallen out and were missing! The tray blocks = and=20 flanges also needed replacing as well as hammer re-shaping, tail = reshaping=20 and a regulation. Now what puzzles me is two fold, 1) why did the=20 replacement parts Kawai sent me have most of there leads fallen out in = the=20 zip lock bag by the time they got to me, and 2) why is the = "checkering" of=20 the hammer tails done so aggressively as to gouge the backcheck = leather?=20 The later is not specific to Kawai as I've noticed it on quite a few = other=20 piano. Mostly cheaper brands which I don't often associate Kawai as = being=20 one of. I'm sure many of you have run across leads falling out but = have you=20 ever had the new replacements shipped to you with leads falling out? Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5c/61/30/3b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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