Baldwin marketed a good number of these during this era. They were actually a pretty darn good piano for the price. Perhaps a little less in quality than the standard Kawai but not a bad little piano. The ones I have seen have a slightly different plate casting, (triangular holes instead of round), but other than that the scale seems to be the same. Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV Clyde Hollinger wrote: > Friends, > > I ran into a new one today. Inside, the grand piano looked for all the > world like a Kawai, complete with the decal, emblem on the plate, plate > configuration, and it claimed to be a model 550-C, serial 557975. On > the fallboard was written Howard (which I know is a Baldwin name) and in > the lower right corner "built specially for Baldwin by Kawai, Japan." > According to Pierce it was made in 1971. > > So what do we have here? Was it really built any differently for > Baldwin, or was just the name on the fallboard changed? I never knew > Kawai ever built pianos for Baldwin. BTW, it also had a serious loose > tuning pin problem in the bass and a few others here and there, if that > has anything to do with anything. > > Regards, > Clyde Hollinger, RPT > Lititz, PA, USA
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