middle pedal of Kawai KG-1D

[Porritt, David]

I've tuned a few of these over the years and they're ok.  They require
the tuning compromises that you'd expect from a piano that small but
they are far superior to the much maligned Yamaha GH-1!

dp

David M. Porritt
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Paul Mulik
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:19 PM
To: piano
Subject: middle pedal of Kawai KG-1D

Hello list,

I got a call this morning from a lady who wants to sell her Kawai KG-1D
baby
grand, serial #1430141.  As it happens, a friend from church is looking
for
a used baby grand, so during my lunch break I went to take some pictures
of
the piano, and while I was there I noticed that the middle pedal wasn't
working.  Since I only had a couple of minutes, I didn't crawl
underneath to
investigate.

Does this model have a sostenuto pedal, or just a bass damper pedal?
Does
anyone have any general comments about this model?  I'm a bit concerned
that
it's so small (5 feet); normally I don't recommend such small grands.

Thank you,
Paul Mulik
Joplin MO