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Kawai - Top class Pianos and Digital Pianos!

Kawai is almost a century old piano manufacturing company. Its Pianos are known the world over for its high quality and distinctive sound, the EX Concert Piano being one of the most popular grand pianos. It is a favorite with pianists; some of the greatest names of our time like Alex Alessandroni, Russ Freeman, Paul smith are some of the great players who own a Kawai piano. Kawai digital pianos are widely used in International Piano competitions as well.

Basically a Japanese company, it has won various prestigious international awards for introducing models with innovative ideas and cutting-edge technology. With its highly acclaimed Concert Artist Series and Concert Performer Ensemble Series pianos, Kawai is already a big name in the digital pianos segment.

Harmonic Imaging sound Technology
Kawai is known for its top class concert grand pianos, especially the Kawai EX Concert Piano. With the "Harmonic Imaging" process, which is a new proprietary process developed by Kawai, the sounds from the Kawai EX Concert Piano are recorded in one of their labs and the same samples are then used in the Kawai digital pianos. Harmonic Imaging Technology gives a new level of authenticity to the instrumental sounds produced by their digital pianos.

Digital Piano Key Actions
For a digital Piano to replicate an acoustic Piano, not only the sound has to be good, it also needs to replicate the feel of the acoustic piano. Kawai, because of its experience with acoustic pianos, has understood this need and that is the reason Kawai digital pianos have real wooden keys to get that perfect "feel".

Kawai Digital Pianos have one of these three key actions -
• AWA PRO - found on the MP8, CA5, CA7, CA9, CA-X, CP207, CP177 and CP137.
• Advanced Hammer Action IV with AR Technology (AR stands for '"Acoustic Response") - found on the portable ES4, CN2, CN3, CN4, CP117, CP187 and MP4 Professional Stage Piano.
• Advanced Hammer Action III - found on the CL20. This is industry standard weighted, graded-hammer action, not the simple weighted action found on the cheaper digital pianos.

Learning system
Concert Magic is the built-in system which makes learning and playing songs on the Paino considerably easier for you. It gives you a wide range of styles and songs to learn from. Almost all of the Kawai digital pianos have the Concert Magic Feature. Models in the CA and CP Series also feature the Concert Magic Note Navigator system, a visual guide to help you through each song. In addition to that, models in the CP Series (except the CP67) also display the lyrics to many of the songs.

Various Models
Kawai has a wide range of Digital Pianos. The Concert Performer series, the Concert Artist Series, the ES and MP Series Stage Pianos, are already top choices for most of the performing musicians.

CP series - Concert Performer Digital Ensembles
• CP207D Digital Grand Piano with DVD
• CP187 Digital Grand Piano with CD-R
• CP177 Digital Ensemble with DVD
• CP137 Digital Ensemble with CD-R
• CP117 Digital Ensemble
• CP67 Digital Ensemble

CA series - Concert Artist Digital Pianos
• CA9 Concert Artist Digital Piano
• CA7 Concert Artist Digital Piano
• CA5 Concert Artist Digital Piano

CN series - Affordable, high performance digital pianos
• CN4 Digital Piano with Alfred Inside
• CN3 Digital Piano with Alfred Inside
• CN2 Digital Piano
• CL20 Digital Piano

Stage Pianos
• CA-X Portable Digital Piano
• ES4 Portable Digital Piano
• MP8 Professional Stage Piano
• MP4 Professional Stage Piano



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