Ric, Sounds nasty! I have to say that even the crummiest older Kawais I work on don't sound as bad as they should, and are usually quite tunable. They are certainly not as bad as the one you're talking about. I would definitely talk to tech support about it. I'm wonderingif it's similar to the K-15 we see stateside. Not my favorite piano,for sure, but for the price it sells for it's not so bad. It's made inIndonesia, and the Indonesian ones (which I'm sure the k-12 is) areless "refined" than their Japanese brethren. Speaking of jiffy leads on Kawais, I worked on a Kawai KG2 D at a country club piano the other day. While putting a couple of paper punchings in the balance rail from below, I noticed that the entire keyboard had been meticulously jiffy-leaded on the underside. It seems like if you're going to go that far, why not just drill and fill....? Dave Stahl, RPT Dave Stahl Piano Service dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net dstahlpiano.net -----Original Message----- From: Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 12:17 am Subject: [pianotech] Worst Kawaii ever 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091125/cda3fe9e/attachment-0001.htm>
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