<html> <body> Dave, The RX-A was the predecessor to the current SK-5.  It was, indeed, a very nice piano with a lot of power. The action had the composite jack, and ABS wippen flanges.  The ABS wippens and hammer flanges were not introduced until 1996, after the RX-A was out of production. By the way - I am doing my Kawai carbon action program this week in Long Island, NY (Broadway Piano) and Memphis, TN (Lane Music) if anyone on the list would like to come.  The NY program is Tuesday afternoon / evening (paired with a voicing program) and Memphis is Friday night, I think. Don Mannino RPT Kawai Amerca At 05:04 AM 2/14/2005, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> Hi All,   On the way back from the CA conference in Sacramento, I had a job tuning and  doing some light voicing on a Kawai RXA.  I think it's around 10 years old, serial number beginning with 241....    The piano is very nicely put together, and sounds, well, powerful, given that it is a 6 1/2 foot piano(I think) in a 12 foot squar room.  After tuning, I did a bit of hammer shoe-shining, which really evened out the tone nicely(no need to get out the voicing tool I'd just bought from Jurgen at Piano Forte piano supplies at the conference...:-()    As I had the action on my lap, I was surprised to see no ABS parts.  There may have been a flange hidden in  there, but it was not readily apparent.  The owner said that he had been told that the RXAs were basically prototypes of the Shigeru pianos.  Very interesting instrument, very powerful(especially in a cubicle-sized room!).    Don, if you have any info on this piano, I'd be interested in knowing a bit more about it.  It certainly didn't seem like a standard production piano.   Also, thanks for the voicing class at the conference, especially the video of the restaurant scene....:-).   Dave Stahl    </blockquote></body> </html>