---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 8/14/05 11:55:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jonpage@comcast.net writes: My first encounter with this new-ish model was two weeks ago. I'm returning this week to file hammers and a few other things. Two e-mails to Kawai tech support didn't yield a reply. What's the hammer blow, dip, let-off specs for this? Action spread too, just for fun. Jon, Kawai is normally pretty responsive. They've undergone some changes recently, which may affect the response time. Try _PMarshall@kawaius.com_ (mailto:PMarshall@kawaius.com) . I don't have the specs in front of me, but here's what I usually work with: 47mm blow 2-1 mm let off 10mm keydip Action spread....:-( can't help you on that one. If I'm not mistaken, it can't be changed on this--or any current?--model of Kawai. That should get you pretty close. Don M. will correct me if I'm wrong, most likely. The ABS action worked well except for a half dozen center pins clicking in the rep lever birdseye. I also had to apply Teflon powder to the suede rep lever upstop cushion, it was creaking when engaging the drop screw. I've worked on dozens, if not hundreds of Kawais, and I don't think I've ever heard the rep lever pin clicking in the birdseye. I've often heard clicking from the wippen, but it's almost inevitably a quick squeak from the unteflonned knuckle dropping onto the top of the jack. The drop screws start to squeak on the upstop leather on many Kawais after a couple of years. I've heard it more often on the less expensive pianos--a lower grade, perhaps? I think it is a synthetic material. It stays pliable, and is durable, but will squeak if not lubricated. I do this by taking some kind of straight-edge to push down the rep levers so the pads are more accesible, then brush on teflon with the sharp end of a felt mute. It seems to work okay. Overall a nice piano except for the tight, springy tuning pins causing tuning to be a chore, adding more than 30 minutes. It probably doesn't help the pins in the block with this piano's ocean view, maybe a 15W DC in the action ?? -- I guess I've "grown up" with them, so the feel of the pins has never bothered me. But I've never done one that lives in a beach house, either! The ABS actions worked pretty well, but the new "Millenium" actions, with carbon composite replacing much of the ABS, are among the nicest actions available, IMHO. Have fun! I've found that the hammers respond well to shaping and voicing. Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d2/36/4b/cc/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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