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Congratulations on the arrival of your magnificent new piano! How does it sound in its new home?

Best wishes,

Robert.

Superb piano! Congratualtions!

Simply wonderfull! Enjoy it for ever!

That is quite the piano! Congrats and I love your floor too. Frames the piano very nicely! But I have to agree, these movers would scare any piano buyer.... Especially a with piano of this category... Thanks for sharing!

I only wish it were me.

You've done well, in my opinion. I hope you'll favor us with updates, as it settles in.

A real beauty and a piano for a livetime! Have fun for many years!

Yes please post the video.. I was going to ask about the the piece of equipment. Beautiful piano. Did you get to play on the patio?

Congratulations!

I was just curious as to why the legs are not fluted, why the mover was moving the piano w/o the lid and the fallboard. So, I wanted to know where the country is.

Steering wheels of the cars in the photos are on the wrong side, men are whites and they are in summer clothes. So I narrowed to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. According to the license plate of two cars in the photos, I guess it is Australia.

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a man who looks at photos focusing on non-primary objects

good detective skills, masaki I'm in Aust.


I asked for square legs mainly because it is cheaper and I like the look of it better than the round legs. I think these legs were taken off a RX7 piano.

The lid had to be removed because of the dolly they used. you can see this in the video that I will post later.

The fallboard can be removed by just sliding it up, so maybe they it could fall out during transportation? i duno

Zerox 61:

Mega-Congrats..........

A Brand New SK7 / A room with hardwood floors / all in the comfort of your own home.

Does it get any better than that?

Absolutely Lovely!

WOW.. congrats.. you probably saved alot by getting an "older" shigeru as opposed to the newer one..

Thanks guys.



This one is new, I had my eye on it when it came to Australia for 2 weeks in the dealer shop. It's been at the dealer for about 2 and a bit months when I bought it. I don't want one in the box, it would require ordering, waiting, etc and it may be slightly different to the one I play at the dealer. btw, I duno about your area, but ordering a new piano and buying the display piano is exactly the same price here.

Hopefully will get a video up of the move tomorrow!

The piano is not in tune atm, tuner is coming next week! surprised that the tune will change so much after a move. I always thought only the super pedantic people would tune it after a move but some treble trichords are off and can hear beats for a few notes.

according to the serial number i saw on your piano.. it was made between 2008-2009.. the model i saw here in southern california was a 2012 model. i think the main differences were cosmetic but it was 5k more ( i would confirm with Kawai though). changes includes newly designed inner rim coloring, logos, legs, and a few other things

SKs available in Japan have square legs and square lyre pillars. It might be that your SK7's legs and the lyre pillars are genuine SK components. I can hardly imagine the RX's lyre pillars do fit to SK's lyre box.

When I ever saw the round and fluted legs in some photos posted by some SK owners in the US, I felt "too fancy!". So did, when I saw the inner rim of the 2012 version of SKs.

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an amateur

I guess the tuner you are expecting next week is not an MPA, but a man who is supposedly provide only tuning and action adjustments only to cover the period until the MPA visit, which will not be in a few months, but after several months. I would suggest you not to ask the non-MPA tuner for jobs that require higher skills than he has.

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an amateur

The Australian Shigeru Kawai website lists two non-Japanese men who are presumably the MPA people for Australia. Both these technicians, according to their résumés, have had extensive experience with Kawai in Japan.

In Auckland, New Zealand, the Shigeru Kawai MPA is also a local person who may or may not be as good as the genuine article from Japan.

Regards,

Robert.

I'll have to ask the dealer (or call up kawai). He told me 2 and a bit months old (on the day I bought it), but since it is only cosmetic differences, I don't really care since im happy with this version. Before buying I did check the serial number though and saw 2008-2009 on the kawai US site. there was no serial reference list on the AU site so I thought it might have different serial number conventions here.




Would you happen to have a photo of the new inner rim? I am very interested to see what it looks like.

The tuner next week is not a MPA. I get 4 'free tunings' and one MPA visit. There is a MPA in Sydney so he might fly over here or one from Japan might fly here (this is what the dealer told me).

　I do not have one, but here is a URL.

http://www.google.co.jp/imgres?q=sk+カワイ%E3%80%802012&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=UIRDdyUcDak6RM:&imgrefurl=http://omotesando.blog.kawai.co.jp/d2012-01.html&docid=XLou7Ert3jrngM&imgurl=http://omotesando.blog.kawai.co.jp/usr/omotesando/%2525E6%252596%2525B0%2525EF%2525BC%2525B3%2525EF%2525BC%2525AB%2525E3%252580%252580%2525E3%252583%252590%2525E3%252583%2525BC%2525E3%252582%2525BA%2525E3%252582%2525A2%2525E3%252582%2525A4.JPG&w=350&h=263&ei=XbSkT6LiBu7umAWC-8jhBA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=527&sig=100625518248226394966&page=2&tbnh=158&tbnw=218&start=8&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:8,i:98&tx=124&ty=98&biw=997&bih=544

here are some new pictures haha I HAD to do this!!


DSC01220 by wang.zj, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63267331@N07/7143768903/in/set-72157629576441506/


DSC01198 by wang.zj, on Flickr

Ah I see. Actually I saw something very similar on some Bernstein (essentially a rebadged Hailun) pianos (I played a few during my search for a piano) It looks pretty cool there is some sort of 3D effect when looking at different angles right?
having said that though, I prefer the darker colour rim in the 'older sk models'

The rim materials in all of the SK are the same right? just the veneer changed?

I like the new logo on the plate it looks much better than the embossed logo on the plate.

btw Thanks for the link masaki.



oh yeah talking about cosmetics on a piano, one thing I Reallly wanted on the SK7 but is not there is the side decal as seen in the SKEX model. Kawai and Yamaha only have side decals for the flagship models. Petrof has if for all of their Master series (Monsoon, Mistral and Pasat)