<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1528" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#000080 size=2>Patrick, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#000080 size=2>Comments interspersed.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>From: "PIANISSIMO PIANOFORTE S.L." <</FONT><A href="mailto:patrick@pianospianissimo.com"><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>patrick@pianospianissimo.com</FONT></A><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>To: "Pianotech List" <</FONT><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 3:50 PM</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Subject: Re: Kawai vs. Yamaha</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>William,<BR><BR>> Respectfully disagree<BR><BR>That's great, it certainly keeps our brains busy :)<BR><BR>>I find the newer Kawais, particularly the RX's to be<BR>> very nice if properly voiced and regulated from the factory<BR><BR>Newer ones you say, how about the older ones?? wait for those RX's to be a<BR>few years old and you'll see a different side to them.<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#000080 size=2>New, old, I really don't find many difficulties with the RX pianos.  I do a fair bit of work for a Kawai dealer, and see many, many of these, and with proper care, I don't find these problems.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2> </DIV> <DIV><BR>> Shigeru's,<BR>> of which I have seen a few - very nice.  Some of the best, IMO.  Yes, with<BR>> or above the Yamaha S series.<BR><BR>Since i havent come across any Shigerus yet, i take your word on that one.<BR><BR>> As for the new action parts, "black ABS" being just plain weird, someone<BR>> probably said that about the double-escapement grand action that Erard<BR>> came<BR>> up with.  The action parts BTW are Carbon-impregnated ABS.  I think they<BR>> are<BR>> the cat's meow.  Just my opinion.  ABS in general, is found to be<BR>> stronger,<BR>> more dimensionally stable, among other things.<BR><BR>I am fully aware of that, im not saying that is bad, just that the black<BR>whippens are actually weird to look at!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>Got it.  Agree that it takes some getting used to (the black).  I guess I took issue because the way you phrased it makes it sound that the ABS in general, black in particular, is inferior, when I find that to be untrue.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>Hope you get to see some Shigeru pianos.  They really are at the top.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>William R. Monroe</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Patrick<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>