<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple id="role_body" bottomMargin=7 leftmargin=7 topmargin=7 rightMargin=7> <div class=Section1> Dale wrote:   I really like the Kawai grands in general. The tone is far more interesting than it other Japanese competitor & I can do wonderful things with the voicing .      I don’t get it. Most all of the Kawai grands I tune (which aren’t that many) I don’t really care much for. Since there aren’t any new Kawais being sold in this area most of the ones I encounter are 10 plus years old of the KG variety, a couple of GS, one GS-70. I don’t like the sustain. With the sustain pedal on when playing an arpeggio the sound quickly fades into white noise and one cannot discern what scale was just played. I’ve done some experimenting even, hitting individual notes across the scale with an f blow and I get about a second of tone before there is only noise.   These are pianos with original hammers that have probably never had a needle stuck in them. Is this a hammer/voicing problem? <div> Dean Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN  47802 </div>   -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Erwinspiano@aol.com Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 10:18 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: near impossible tuning   <div> <div>   Dittos Roger </div> <div>   Ed Normally I find Kawai a very stable piano.   I tuned a Kg-2 the other day &  I had not tuned it for 3 years.  Except for being 6 cents flat, enough for a pitch raise, it was in solidly in tune with itself & I wondered why I was there. It is also an easy piano to tune. </div> <div>    I really like the Kawai grands in general. The tone is far more interesting than it other Japanese competitor & I can do wonderful things with the voicing .  However on some of the grands & verticals a like have pins do not render well. </div> <div>   Ed I don't get it & would like to know this is only an isolated incident as I currently have a client looking to buy one of the same models </div> <div>  Dale </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> After lifting, leveling, and fitting, the power, sustain, and  voicing will improve. String lifting is a skill just like tuning, I would hardly call it indiscriminate. Regards Roger </blockquote> </div> <div>   </div> </div> </body> </html>