Kawai Digital piano. Help needed.

[Peter Jason]

I have a Kawai CA18 which has a problem with the black key
middleC# in that this is harder to strike than the other
keys. There seems to be something snagging the mechanism
for this single black key.

Otherwise the piano is OK.

I have decided to take the piano to bits and fix it myself
and I have partly dismantled the case in an attempt to get
to the keyboard mechanisms.

Looking down on the wooden keys extensions within the case I
can see that this middleC#key lacks some sort of spring
beneath at the rear because, unlike all the others the back
of the key does not rise up by itself when I lift away the
metal strikers.

I cannot proceed in this task because I cannot remove the
slide-down lid free of the keys. There is a groove at each
side of the piano in which pins on the lid slide backwards
and forwards.

The keyboard assembly seems to want to be removed as a
single unit.

Can anyone help me with some link to find a service manual
for the KawaiCA18..? Or can someone give me some practical
advice. Getting off the sliding lid would be a great help.

desperate:
Peter

[Lol]

On my piano, a Technics, the sliding lid can be removed by sliding to the
closed position, then there is a vertical notch that allows the rear of the
lid to be lifted out of the horizontal sliding grooove.
I would imagine that is a fairly standard design for such a mechanism - lift
the back end of the cover in wither fully closed or almost full closed
position.
hth,
lol

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[Lol]

picture worth a thousand words:
http://www.ldwilmer.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Oddments/TECHNICS205.pdf

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[Peter Jason]

Thanks I did figure it out.
http://www.pici.se/518154/
for some pictures.

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