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Thanks for the update. All the best with your bew piano.

Your piano and bench look just great and the finish is especially nice. Congratulations.

You are correct that your AC will reduce room humidity. However your heating system will not. So, especially in winter, your piano is likely to be subject to substantial swings in humidity. Basically, anytime your AC is not in use.

Best regards,

Beautiful finish on that Rosina! Enjoy!

that is quite gorgeous. I really like the idea of the 'full spectrum ports'.. quite clever. It's so pretty. Do you know how they came up with the 'Rosina' name?

It is interesting to note that here we have an example of an instance where it is quite reasonable to purchase a piano without playing it.

With those brands that have very high consistancy of manufacturing, Kawai and Yamaha in particular, the variations in performance among like scales are oftem relatively insignificant. In this case, moving the piano a few inches from the wall likely changed the tonality more than the varience in the tonality of another Rosina.

oh, i see.

it's a table cloth.

thought it was one of those walker bouncers

Just a little update to say I paid off my Kawai Rosina last week!

Broussard's (Mobile, AL) gave me a great price and great terms - nine months with no interest!

I love this piano! Play it at least two hours a day and wish I could do more. I've been playing piano for 44 years now and I'm having more fun now than I ever have!

Paul

Congratulations, Paul! Glad to hear you're still enjoying your piano so much!

That's how it should be! Congratulations on paying it off so it's all yours now! Enjoy!

Have you worked out all the little "new piano bugs"?

Is the millenium III action everything you hoped for?

I remain very interested in that piano. I have UST-7 now from 1989, and love it, but yours looks delicious.

Hi JR --

All the bugs are worked out and I'm immensely pleased with the action, the tone, the power, the delicacy - everything!

The dealer asked for pictures of me at the piano and my wife took these yesterday:







Scheduling another tuning in the coming weeks and I'll be all set for summer!

Paul

Very handsome instrument, Paul; thanks for the new photos. I much prefer the music rack to the dreadful little fold-down shelf on the K- series.

It's interesting that you preferred the sound of this model to one of the K's, but that's the smart way to shop: with your ears.

Congratulations!

I'm always puzzled why people seem to prefer these days high gloss ebony finishes in pianos to beautful wood.

Congratulations - wonderful choice!!

Norbert

Thank you for the follow-up on your delightful piano. The photos say it all.
You must be so happy with it. Keep up the playing!

Kind regards,

Robert.

Unfortunately, a problem with my webhost has crippled the image URLs in my earlier posts. You can now see all the pictures for this thread in the Photo Gallery here:

Kawai Rosina SI-16

Paul

Not so new anymore, but I've posted a couple of videos. Sorry I don't play better - or have better mics!





I continue to love this piano seven years after purchase! Wish they still offered it in the US, but I guess that just makes mine more wonderfully rare ...

Paul

How wonderful, thanks for posting the videos!!

Those are such pretty pianos. Nice playing.

Wonderful to see and hear that you still love your Kawai Rosina (SI-16). You play very nicely Paul and I can hear that it comes from the heart.

Thank you for the follow up after all those years.

Robert.

Beautiful piano, and nice videos of you playing.
Also, enjoyed seeing your faithful dog next to you.

Nice to get a follow-up after seven years.

ilm