Kawai parts

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

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    And another BTW, I'd really wait until you hear from Don Mannino on =
this, before you do anything. I've worked on quite a few GE-1s and I've =
never seen anything like what you're telling us. Their tails are not so =
rough as to need attention. Are you sure you're not talking about a =
Samick?
     Kawai, long ago, understood the principle of "opposing arch's" of =
movement enough to know that you don't need that kind of aggressive =
checkering.
    And what the heck happened to the flanges? They're ABS! We have no =
problems with them, EVER!
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  From: Greg Newell=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org ; MPT@philbondi.com=20
  Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 9:44 PM
  Subject: Kawai parts


  Greetings lists,
           I have recently experienced something most puzzling. I =
ordered new=20
  damper levers straight from Kawai for a GE-1 played and used heavily =
by a=20
  "spirited" church. Is that the politically correct term we use today?=20
  Anyway, They were to be replaced because somewhere along the line the =
leads=20
  in more than a few had fallen out and were missing! The tray blocks =
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  flanges also needed replacing as well as hammer re-shaping, tail =
reshaping=20
  and a regulation. Now what puzzles me is two fold, 1) why did the=20
  replacement parts Kawai sent me have most of there leads fallen out in =
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  zip lock bag by the time they got to me, and 2) why is the =
"checkering" of=20
  the hammer tails done so aggressively as to gouge the backcheck =
leather?=20
  The later is not specific to Kawai as I've noticed it on quite a few =
other=20
  piano. Mostly cheaper brands which I don't often associate Kawai as =
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  one of. I'm sure many of you have run across leads falling out but =
have you=20
  ever had the new replacements shipped to you with leads falling out?

  Greg Newell
  mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20



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