middle pedal of Kawai KG-1D

[Avery]

David,

At 02:40 PM 3/21/2006, you wrote:
>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!

IMO, those earned every bit of their "misalined" reputation! JMO. I really,
really, dislike those pianos!!!!!!!!!

Avery


>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