<html> <body> Les, There will be a Shigeru Kawai EX at the Kansas City convention in June. It will be used for the annual Kawai concert, this year performed by a very fine pianist from Israel named Ori Shihor.  The concert will be on Friday night, after the banquet as usual. Don Mannino At 07:10 PM 4/27/2007, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> 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 l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net 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. thanks les bartlett </blockquote></body> </html>