CX-5H ?

[Mark Story]

The basic quality of these seems to be decent - they tune and perform as
well as you would expect a Kawai should.  They seem to be on the forefront
of Kawai's efforts to cut production costs as much as possible while still
retaining basic quality.  One of these that we saw here was the first piano
I have seen with finger-jointed ribs!  Though the ones I have left here
don't have them, it seems to me that some that were sold during the sale had
the steel framed keybeds too.

The only thing that really bothers me about them is the filler blocks at the
top.  This is the old trick of wrapping a 45" cabinet around a 40" piano.
Did Kawai scoop up some of the orphaned Kimball marketing people?

Mark Story, RPT
Eastern Washington University
mstory@ewu.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy, Karen, and Tor Nichols <nicho@lascruces.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Friday, October 24, 1997 10:40 AM
Subject: CX-5H ?


List,
Anyone had a chance to service a Kawai vertical with a model number like
CX-5H?
Feedback?


Thanks,


Guy Nichols, Member, PTG
nicho@lascruces.com




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