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Play Schumann's The Happy Farmer at 150 BPM, and you will be at 5.

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Why is a long pivot length important to me?

I am drawn to the romantic composers, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin etc. They all require good regulation, the need to be able to control how hard/fast you hit the key to a fine degree. They also very often require needing to play near the fallboard.

I am a long way from having the sense of touch and control needed for playing these composers sensitively. For playing many of their pieces I find it really hard going playing near the fallboard. I am a long way from having the required skill and it will be a long time before I have the kind of skill that can play these pieces well when playing near the fallboard.

Playing on a piano with a long pivot length makes a really big difference for what I am interested in playing. The simple physics of levers ensures this is the case. I am so far from being a skilled enough player that I could play these type of pieces well on a piano with a short pivot length.

The NV5 is an awesome looking piano and I am sure for a digital piano it will sound great as well, I was looking at it closely not because I am thinking of buying anything like it, I can't, I am not in a position to, but I was looking at it closely because it looks so gorgeous and I was intrigued and then I noticed the short pivot length. That ended the unrequited love affair.

Like MacMacMac I just cannot play quickly. The repetition rate is absolutely no concern to me, as well as being physically unable to play rapid repetitions I am also not drawn to learning to play anything that requires that kind of speed. I made no comment in relation to repetition rate before this because it was of no interest to me. I made remarks that relate 100% to what engages me. It is just common sense that something that impacts my ability to play pieces that I want to hear played well I will comment on.

The first and main goal of buying a hybrid grand piano is to have a grand piano keyboard and action built in a digital piano. Unfortunately, the Kawai Novus NV5 does NOT have a grand piano keyboard and action, it has an upright piano keyboard and action. Therefore, the Kawai Novus NV5 should not be even considered for any potential would be buyer of a hybrid grand piano! They should consider the Kawai Novus NV10 instead or the Yamaha hybrid grand pianos (except one that also has a similar upright piano keyboard and action) or the Casio hybrid grand pianos.
And I do not mean in any way that the Kawai Novus NV5 is a bad product, not at all.

There has been no mention of "grand" anything in this thread. And the NV5 is not marketed as having a grand action.

So if you're saying that if you want a grand hybrid you should buy a grand hybrid ... then I don't see your point.

How do we know the action replicates a K200 and not a K300? Or K500? The NV10 could have had the action of a GL10. But it doesn’t.

Just curious why you included the Casios in a discussion of digital hybrids with acoustic grand actions? The Casios are more like the Kawai CA-78/98, Yamaha CLP-675/685 or Rolabd LX-706/708, they're high end digitals with fine digital actions but nothing like an acoustic action at all.

Gombessa, sometimes it's best to just bite your tongue on these things...

But....somebody is wrong....on the internet!!

As posted by Sam S in another thread:

That looks like a baby grand. I could be wrong but I checked another video here, and this one looks like a grand as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PntflKl2pZA