[pianotech] Worst Kawaii ever

[Richard Brekne]

Ran into a Kawaii upright yesterday that had to be the worst newer piano 
I have encountered ... ever really.  A K-12 something or another. 
Totally untuneable bass scale. Virtually ever wound string had wacked 
out para-inharmonicity of a degree I've only run into in some of those 
wonderful boxes I first tuned back in the states with names like Story 
and Clark, Wurlitzer, etc.  This was as bad as anything ever.  Only 6 
years old.  Not one single bass unision had anything even close to 
matching partials ladders... and in anycase nothing matched partials of  
intervals above in the unwound section. No use using an ETD.... it just 
got confused :):) Didnt know any of the larger companies were capable of 
producing such a POJ in this day and age.

It had also had jiffy weights installed... downweight with the damper 
pedal depressed was like 90 grams... ya gots to wonder :)

Cheers
RicB