Dear all,
I want just to thank all the members of this forum for the precious information provided, I learned a lot on this forum! I also want to share my happiness for the Kawai GL-30 that was just delivered to my apartment yesterday! I was worried about how it could have sounded and I could not be more relieved than I was when I first played a few notes, it has a lovely and bell sound that surprised me. Perhaps, it is only the effect of the emotion to have such a beautiful musical instrument for the first time in my life!
Guido
Congratulations!
I am anxiously waiting for the delivery of my own Kawai GX3.
Wish it'll be as positive of an experience as yours
Congratulations ššš!
Enjoy the piano!
Congratulations on your new Kawai!
Wow, congratulations on your new Kawai grand!! I know youāll enjoy it, itās a lovely instrument! šš¾š
May you have many years of pleasure together
Wasn't familiar with the GL-30 so I looked it up. Looks like a great choice: It's 5' 5" so it's an ample sized piano, but at the same time not too overwhelmingly large for an apartment. It also has the great Millennium III Action and a lot of other pluses.
Welcome to the Kawai Club
Congratulationsš„šš¾š. I know itās been a long, long wait. How wonderful! Please post a few pictures of your beauty!
Beautiful piano!!! Congrats š
Out of curiosity, you have a grand piano in an apartment. How about your neighbors? I know that in Europe apartments are well built with bricks and mortar providing a good insulation. Do your neighbors hear anything when you play the piano?
Congratulations! Looks good.
One never knows exactly how a piano will sound in one's home.You have had a long wait so I am sure you are relieved.
Kawai makes excellent pianos,I am sure you will be very happy
with your new friend.
Yes,
it has been a long search, I started considering an upright, then I added in the silent feature, I read several posts on this forum and my expectation increased, so increased my budget. Then I opted for a baby grand, for the same price of a good upright + silent.
Once I was at this stage I restarted all my previous considerations and moved a step forward to a greater size. ... At this point I decided to stop my search, there will always be a more expensive piano to buy, it was decisive to remember how better sounded my digital keyboard when it was played by a serious pianist! The piano is important, but also the pianist skills are decisive, therefore, I thought: why not spend the extra money just to take lessons in the near future?
The size of a piano is important, however, if Kawai makes the RX1 with the same size of the GL-30, the size of this latter should not be so bad, I thought. Of course, Millennium 3 action was decisive as well as the feeling of the touch I experienced trying the GL-30 in the showroom.
All this process took almost two years, I knew it was an emotional choice for me and I did not want to take a light decision.
The worste time was during the last three months, because I had to wait to get the money available and many members of the forum have been so kind to help me go through this months answering to all my questions and doubts.
Finally, the day of delivery arrived and all the previous doubts vanished as soon as I played the first notes! Any chld should have the chance to be exposed to the beauty of a piano, no matter if it be an upright or a baby grand!
Out of curiosity, you have a grand piano in an apartment. How about your neighbors? I know that in Europe apartments are well built with bricks and mortar providing a good insulation. Do your neighbors hear anything when you play the piano?
It is too early to say. Legally I can play several hours a day, for sure in the morning (perhaps, starting from 8 a.m., however, I plan to start not before 9 a.m. until 12 a.m.) and in the late afternoon until the dinner hours (5-8 p.m.).
However, you are right, I do not feel anyway comfortable especially with tedious repetitions and exercises, I plan to use my old digital keyboard to study and memorize at least the passages when I start to learn a new piece!
Anyway, I had the possibility to choose a room for the piano in the middle of my apartment, a room on the left side, another room on the right side, an halley and a room in the opposite side of the piano, a shop under the room, and almost nobody for all morning in the appartment that stands over mine!
Congratulations!
I am anxiously waiting for the delivery of my own Kawai GX3.
Wish it'll be as positive of an experience as yours
Of course it will be. You are going to get a gorgeous grand piano!
I do not know how well you play, but I guess that a piano like the RX3 will be a tremendous further motivation anyway!
I expected almost all day before I gad the xoyrage to actially play my new piano!
Don't forget to protect your investment. Get a string cover and piano pedal cover to preserve the lustrous shine of the strings and brass. Congratulations!
Congratulations! Enjoy that new Kawai piano.
Congratulations on your new piano!
Did you consider and get a chance to try out the GL-30 with the silent feature?
Like you, Iād love to have the option to practice scales and work out pieces in the privacy of my earphones. It would be great to do so on a real grand piano action if thatās an affordable optionāand that also doesnāt affect the feel of the action in any way when playing acoustically.
Congratulations on your new piano!
Did you consider and get a chance to try out the GL-30 with the silent feature?
Like you, Iād love to have the option to practice scales and work out pieces in the privacy of my earphones. It would be great to do so on a real grand piano action if thatās an affordable optionāand that also doesnāt affect the feel of the action in any way when playing acoustically.
There are three reasons that prevented me to choose the silent action:
1) Its cost: three thousands euro (or dollar) would (almost) make the difference between the GL-10 and the GL-30, or between the GL-30 and the GL-40. I thought it was better to spend this money to get a better model.
2) Electronics is subject to a faster depreciation, I already have a digital piano (a Yamaha CVP 307), after 12 years I have to call the technician to repair some problems on the keyboard (the keys of the central octaves sometimes get stuck). After 10 years it would be easier to change a separate digital piano than a silent feature that could present problems.
3) Eventually, I would prefer to have a separate digital piano that I can also carry with me (unfortunately, this is not the case of the CVP 307!).
Of course, the silent feature is also very useful and wouldn't be for its cost I would have liked to have it!
Guido
All good reasons. Agree that the inevitable obsolescence of the technology and its potential to just stop working properly are concerns. I wonder if itās something that can be readily removed if needed at some point.
Congratulation on your new and nice piano which is located in a fantastic room too. I envy you for it because I have no dedicated, nice room for my piano. Just a small note: possibly you will need to move the piano a little bit when the technician pulls out the action for regulation and voicing (the right side of the piano is seems close to the wall).
You are very lucky to be able to have he piano in a room in the middle of the apartment with only a store (shop) under it and nobody in the apartment upstairs in the whole morning. Anyway congratulation on your GL-30. I guess its has a composite action. How is the touch of the keys?
I wonder if itās something that can be readily removed if needed at some point.
It is a difficult decision, silent or not silent? I guess if I did nit already have a digital piano AND if this was not my last piano (I am 66 years old, little chances to buy another one) I would perhaps have bought a silent GL-10!
The keyboards are absolutely similar.
Anyway congratulation on your GL-30. I guess its has a composite action. How is the touch of the keys?
The touch of the keys is excellent, the main reason that brought me to choose thee GL-30, even though it was not really prepped by the dealer and I was tempted to buy a Yamaha GC2. I was confident about the feeling I had with the touch of the keyboard, the main feature that could really be tested, the sound it is difficult to evaluate because it depends on how it is prepped the piano, how it is located, in your home it will sound differently.
The GL series is a new innivative piano compared to the Yamaha GC series.
By the way,besides Yamahas, I had the possibility to try a Boston, and a Steinway, I preferred the touch of the GL-30!
Just a small note: possibly you will need to move the piano a little bit when the technician pulls out the action for regulation and voicing (the right side of the piano is seems close to the wall).
You are right. I know, when the technician will need to regulate the action we will move the piano, and I will let him choose the best position.
I am still in a strange condition: I do not yet believe to actually have a baby grand in my apartment! It is me who play this gorgeous musical instrument?? Incredible!
It's always so exciting to have everything turn out better than expected!
Well the the grand is real, and it's in your apartment,and you are real ! So enjoy playing piano.The GL30 has the same action as the GX and the piano is made right there in Japan. So yes all real ! Enjoy!
I can understand and can share the happy and incredible feelings with you. The primary objective of my piano searching was an upright such as K300 or K500 then we ended up with Kawai GL20. It took me few months to figure out the piano in my home belongs to me.
Just a small note: possibly you will need to move the piano a little bit when the technician pulls out the action for regulation and voicing (the right side of the piano is seems close to the wall).
You are right. I know, when the technician will need to regulate the action we will move the piano, and I will let him choose the best position.
I am still in a strange condition: I do not yet believe to actually have a baby grand in my apartment! Am I the one who plays this gorgeous musical instrument?? Incredible!
Just a small note: possibly you will need to move the piano a little bit when the technician pulls out the action for regulation and voicing (the right side of the piano is seems close to the wall).
You are right. I know, when the technician will need to regulate the action we will move the piano, and I will let him choose the best position.
I am still in a strange condition: I do not yet believe to actually have a baby grand in my apartment! Am I the one who plays this gorgeous musical instrument?? Incredible!
You feel the way I hope every new piano owner feelsā- incredulity that you really own the wonderful piano in your home! Warms my heart ā¤ļø
I can understand and can share the happy and incredible feelings with you. The primary objective of my piano searching was an upright such as K300 or K500 then we ended up with Kawai GL20. It took me few months to figure out the piano in my home belongs to me.
I'm glad you own a GL-20! I made a search in this forum of the owners of the GL series to ask for advices, but actually I was able to find only a few of them.
In Italy, Kawai does not sell the GL-20, therefore, I had to choose between a GL-10 and a GL-30, otherwise I would have chosen a GL-20, maybe. Other members if this forum wrote to me with good comments on the GL-20, they wrote that it has a beautiful warm sound (whereas the GL-30 is considered brigther).
Do you have the silent feature?
I can understand and can share the happy and incredible feelings with you. The primary objective of my piano searching was an upright such as K300 or K500 then we ended up with Kawai GL20. It took me few months to figure out the piano in my home belongs to me.
I'm glad you own a GL-20! I made a search in this forum of the owners of the GL series to ask for advices, but actually I was able to find only a few of them.
In Italy, Kawai does not sell the GL-20, therefore, I had to choose between a GL-10 and a GL-30, otherwise I would have chosen a GL-20, maybe. Other members if this forum wrote to me with good comments on the GL-20, they wrote that it has a beautiful warm sound (whereas the GL-30 is considered brigther).
Do you have the silent feature?
All good reasons. Agree that the inevitable obsolescence of the technology and its potential to just stop working properly are concerns. I wonder if itās something that can be readily removed if needed at some point.
I guess yes, it should be esaily removable. In any case, technology has done great steps and the silent feature will be ok at least for 10 years, at that point you will have the chance to upgrade it, maybe. The real problem for me was the cost:
Choose a GL-10 with a silent feature
or
Choose a GL-30 without silent feature
Hi Guido, I donāt have the silent system. It is my 1st acoustic piano so I had no idea how loud it will be in my apartment. For that reason it took me much time to reduce its volume in order to avoid disturbing my family and my neighbors. I never try GL30 but I am surprised to learn that it is brighter than GL20. Maybe voicing can help in case you prefer more mellow sounds.
Guido, congratulations!!!!!!!
It looks just wonderful where you have it!!