Kawai EP-308M

[Michael Magness]

On Nov 21, 2007 10:25 PM,  <stuka at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Just picked up a Kawai EP-308M, Kawai's electric grand with MIDI.  $300 on
> Ebay. MIght coulda got it for $100 if I had waited it out and sniped the bid
> at the end, but couldn't stand the possibility that someone else might hit
> the "Buy It Now" button.  The seller was a recycling firm who deals mostly
> in junked monitors, PCs and electronic equipment. Apparently this piano had
> been dropped off for recycling. Crushing and melting-down and all that....
> Weird.
>
> Aside from a very few bumps and a bit of what looks like grafitti that was
> scratched into what would be the fallboard on an acoustic (visible when
> light is shined on it, at the right angle, and shallow enough that it looks
> like it'll rub out), it looks like it could have been less than a year old.
> Very nice shape.  The people at the recyclers' were surprised when I told
> them it was a grand-type piano, with strings and action just like an
> acoustic, but electric.  I don't think anyone on the premises, including the
> seller himself, had any idea what it really was.
>
> KawaiUSA will be happy to sell me a 24V-200 mA wall wart for the low-low of
> $90, but it seems to be the same 2-pin Cannon XLR as the CP70 uses, and once
> I find and secure a couple of those, I think I can adapt a couple of
> computer power supplies for under $20 and have an extra or two.  The missing
> pedal is going to be a little more problematic -- they don't carry it
> anymore -- but perhaps a Rhodes pedal can be adapted...
>
> Opened up the front top board -- it looks new inside -- and played it
> acoustically, it was almost dead-on in tune, but the action seems rather
> noisy, several of the hammer shanks are hitting the hammer rests and
> clacking rather loudly on return . I didn't see anything in the user manual
> about lock-down bars or anything like the CP-70 has, does anyone who has
> dealt with these know if there's something like that, or have a suggestion
> on the hammer rest noise?
>
> Pretty happy with the beast, anyway.
>
> Thanks for any and all,
>
> Matt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ITUNEPIANO at aol.com
> Sent: Nov 21, 2007 10:28 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Young Chang tuning instability
>
> Are you sure the customer isn't touching up the tuning between your visits?
> How often is the piano tuned?  Do you use a key banger to really smack the
> keys hard?
>
> Bob Maret, RPT
> Piano Technician
>
>
>
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See if Roger Jolly can help you, I think he was the tech for Kawai
when these were being sold regularly,
Mike

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Michael Magness
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