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<div>I haven't had a chance to play the EX, but I did get about half an hour alone in an empty conference room with an SK7 at the convention here in CA a couple of months back. Never played anything quite like it...butter is a good way to describe the action. It had just been shipped up from LA, about a 400 mile trip, and a couple of unisons in the killer octave were slightly out of tune.</div>
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<div>At the convention, there were many other notable pianos: Masons, Steingraebers, Boesies, etc., etc....all great pianos, but IMHO, the SK7 didn't take a back seat to any of them. </div>
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<div>Best action I've ever played on.</div>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">Dave Stahl, RPT<br>
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Dave Stahl Piano Service<br>
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dstahlpiano@sbcglobal.net<br>
http://dstahlpiano.net/<br>
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From: rrg@unlv.nevada.edu<br>
To: l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net; pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 8:27 PM<br>
Subject: Re: Shigeru<br>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two thumbs up... WAY up for the Shigeru concert grand, (AKA, the model EX). It will run circles around most any concert piano out there. Incredibly powerful, huge bass, and astoundingly fast and responsive action. There is no way they can go wrong choosing this piano. The EX would in fact be my first choice. If you haven't had the opportunity to play/hear an EX, find one and treat yourself to a main course and desert all in the same box.</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Goodale, RPT</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a client who is head of the committee to purchase a piano for their new sanctuary, a very prominent church in Houston. They are seriously interested in the Shigeru Kawai, 9-foot. She has asked me what technicians have experienced about the piano. I know there aren't a great number of these, yet, in the Country, and certainly I would never have seen one, so would appreciate any enlightenment which could be offered from techs who have worked with them as well as played. I can be emailed privately at <A href='javascript:parent.ComposeTo("l-bartlett%40sbcglobal.net", "");'>l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net</A> if comments on-the-list would present difficulties. I'm a small fish in the huge pond of technicians and the farthest "in the water" I've been is to regulate her KG-6, and the fact that limited warranty work I've done for Kawai leaves me feeling they bend over very far to serve their customers.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks</FONT> <br>
<FONT face=Arial size=2>les bartlett</FONT> </div>
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