<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText">Just picked up a Kawai EP-308M, Kawai's electric grand with MIDI. $300 on Ebay. MIght coulda got it for $100 if I had waited it out and sniped the bid at the end, but couldn't stand the possibility that someone else might hit the "Buy It Now" button. The seller was a recycling firm who deals mostly in junked monitors, PCs and electronic equipment. Apparently this piano had been dropped off for recycling. Crushing and melting-down and all that.... Weird.<br><br>Aside from a very few bumps and a bit of what looks like grafitti that was scratched into what would be the fallboard on an acoustic (visible when light is shined on it, at the right angle, and shallow enough that it looks like it'll rub out), it looks like it could have been less than a year old. Very nice shape. The people at the recyclers' were surprised when I told them it was a grand-type piano, with strings and action just like an acoustic, but electric. I don't think anyone on the premises, including the seller himself, had any idea what it really was. <br><br>KawaiUSA will be happy to sell me a 24V-200 mA wall wart for the
low-low of $90, but it seems to be the same 2-pin Cannon XLR as the
CP70 uses, and once I find and secure a couple of those, I think I can
adapt a couple of computer power supplies for under $20 and have an
extra or two. The missing pedal is going to be a little more
problematic -- they don't carry it anymore -- but perhaps a Rhodes pedal can be adapted...<br>
<br>Opened up the front top board -- it looks new inside -- and played it acoustically, it was almost dead-on in tune, but the action seems rather noisy, several of the hammer shanks are hitting the hammer rests and clacking rather loudly on return . I didn't see anything in the user manual about lock-down bars or anything like the CP-70 has, does anyone who has dealt with these know if there's something like that, or have a suggestion on the hammer rest noise?<br><br>Pretty happy with the beast, anyway.<br><br>Thanks for any and all,<br><br>Matt<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: ITUNEPIANO@aol.com
<br>Sent: Nov 21, 2007 10:28 PM
<br>To: pianotech@ptg.org
<br>Subject: Re: Young Chang tuning instability
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<div>Are you sure the customer isn't touching up the tuning between your
visits? How often is the piano tuned? Do you use a key banger
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