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[harvey]

I think not. If it is a Kawai Howard with that serial number, then the
Kawai numbers puts the age at 1966. This also agrees with the damper
arrangement you're describing at that time.

There should be other identifiers of a Kawai, such as the doughnut shape
balancier support, screw adjustable repetition lever, perhaps a
spring-assisted wippen flange, and so on.

Kawai's of the 60~70's era had model numbers like 350, 500, 600, etc. I'm
not real sure, but don't recall an "in-house" number of 550. That number
may have been reserved for the Howards to differentiate the product. If
that's the case, it should be a 6' grand.

Notice how I've carefully side-stepped the main subject of changing the
felt? <G>

Jim Harvey, RPT


At 01:47 PM 10/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Was Kawai really building Howards in 1930?  Sounds way too early.
>
>-Brian Henselman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Avery Todd <atodd@UH.EDU>
>   I have a Howard No. 550 #217591 (1930 according to Pierce) in
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