Kawai models?
Michael Wagner
with the Kawais. If I can find an affordable RX-3, that's what I'll get,
but more than likely I'll have to go with something older (or smaller or
both). I'm looking around online and will travel to find a good deal, but I
don't know which models to consider. I've seen KG's, CE's, Model 600's, and
more. Each one claims to be the "top of the line" and "predecessor of the
RX". Can anyone give me a better idea of what differentiates the Kawai
models and which ones replaced which? Thanks!
Koala
"Michael Wagner" <mwt...@boundlessblue.com> wrote in message
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My pick would be a 6' GS-30 with duplex scaling. 2nd would be either a
KG-2 (5'10" , variety of colours ) or a KG-3 ( 6' black only). I choose
these on price , performance and reliability.
The 600 series is too old and Kawai really hadn't got their act together
yet with them. The CE's are uprights.
Michael Wagner
but any more info would be very helpful.
I have been told that RX is "hand-made" while other current models are
"production". Does that mean that GS and other models are mass-produced
(and do I care)?
Is KG somehow superior to GS or are were not concurrent models?
It seems like GE and RX are the current models. I'm guessing, then, that GE
is the follow-on to GS and maybe RX is the follow-on to KG?
MW
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Larry
>I have been told that RX is "hand-made" while other current models are
>"production".
That's just sales balogney. The RX series is just as much a production piano as
the rest of them.
>It seems like GE and RX are the current models. I'm guessing, then, that GE
>is the follow-on to GS and maybe RX is the follow-on to KG?
Yes. The KG became the RX. The GS series were upgrades of the old KG line of
models over 6'. The GE series are the (for lack of a better term) "budget"
series.
Once upon a time there was a KG1,2,3,4,5,6, and so on. KG stood for "Kawai
grand". Then, as they upgraded the line, they called them (at least this is
what Kawai told me) GS - "Grand Supreme". The smallest GS was a 6'1, a GS-30,
which was then replaced by the GS-40, and so on. They replaced all the KG and
GS stuff with RX models. That should have ended the model confusion, except
they had already come out with the GM and GE series, ending up right back to a
confusing list of models.
And no, don't pay any attention to a salesman telling you about "hand made
Kawais". Just pick a piano you like.
Larry Fletcher
Michael Wagner
MW
Alex Maas
> Thanks, Larry. That's incredibly helpful.
>
> MW
Larry is always most helpful, unless you have a rare prototype Bernard
Steiner piano for sale. I guess, even then, you could argue he tries
to be helpful. Just not to the seller.
Johann Spannung
also found these links, if you can travel to find your dream piano it
might be worth it.
http://www.pghpa.com/pianos_by_state.htm
http://www.faustharrisonpianos.com
http://www.countrypiano.com/home.html
http://www.ppbrokers.com/usedpianos.html
best,
-Johann