<html> <body> Julia, A Kawai RX-2 is 5'10" and the RX-3 is 6'1". So I guess it "could" be either one. :-) At 11:19 AM 4/1/05, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> Greetings,              A lady recently (12/05) purchased a 6' Kawaii, I dont know the model number, and I tuned it. She says she likes the tuning, however she says the piano sounds "stringy". I agreee, I would use the word twangy, though. I think this may be a matter of voicing, but I am not so sure. Do these hammers need to be hardened? I think that time will harden them up. </blockquote> If it sounds twangy, IMHO, the hammers are already hard enough. Probably too hard! I've never seen/heard a Kawai (or a Yamaha or any other Oriental built piano, for that matter) that needs the hammers hardened! Usually the opposite. Mostly, the Kawais and Yamahas are pretty good sounding now with a minimum amount of voicing, depending on the model. I have a problem with one or two right now (SEVERAL broken strings) but I just haven't had a chance to get to them and do some voicing! We have a lot of fairly "heavy" players, so I have to deal with that. Even on our lease pianos which are less than a year old! <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">   I am more inclined to think that it is cheap strings that are making the twanginess or stringyness. What say you, anyone?</blockquote> Not at all likely. As far as I know, there aren't very many choices in the piano wire one can buy and as far as I know, none are "cheap" (I'm not talking about price!) :-) Kawai tries very hard to make a very good instrument and over the 20+ yrs. I've been tuning them, they've improved REMARKABLY! Avery <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> Thanks, Julia Gottscall, Reading, PA</blockquote></body> </html>