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Introduction:

In this piano review video, Stu Harrison of Merriam Pianos guides takes an in-depth look at Kawai’s K800 Upright Grand Piano. It’s the ultimate vertical piano from Japan by many accounts, bringing to bear Kawai’s full engineering and manufacturing prowess in a single model

It features Sostenuto, Agraffes, premium solid spruce soundboard (tapered), Millennium III Action, Royal George Felt Hammers w/ Mahogany cores, oversized music desk, heavy-duty solid brass casters, and much more.

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The Sound:

The tone of the Kawai K800 is colourful, warm, and dynamic. It has a huge volume range, and a widely varied tonal palette throughout that range. The bass is big, subtly brassy, and sustaining. The instrument has virtually no ‘meow’ in the mid-range; by that I mean that it’s bloom is extremely short and almost undetectable - it reaches its full projection almost instantly and then sustains with remarkable evenness throughout the range of the instrument.

The action feels fluid and grand-like, and double-hits and missed notes are non-existent. A testament to both excellent factory prep as well as good geometry on the action.

The sound is bolstered by duplex scaling - both front and rear - on the entire upper half of the piano. The front duplexing is provided by the capo bars themselves, where the rear is unbraided. This allows for plenty of textural harmonics and really helps to simulate a treble normally only achieved on a grand model.


Action:

The K800 uses the Carbon-Fibre reinforced Millennium III action, an action which has received near universal acclaim as one of the best actions on the piano market today, regardless of price point. Although I tend not to be a fan of super tall cap-stand designs in larger uprights, Kawai somehow manages to achieve a level of control and responsiveness that I would normally expect out of a 48-50”, without giving up the dynamic response one expects from a 53”.

The keys are solid, the travel distance is neither deep nor shallow, and the repetition speed is consistent or better than other premium 52 and 53” uprights.


Other Features:

Outside of the top capo bars which provide the duplex scaling, the mid and bass ranges of the piano use Agraffes to control distortion, false beating, and tuning stability.

The piano is also equipped with sostenuto, a nice addition to higher-level classical players. The normal middle pedal function of muting is relegated to a lever under the left gable and is easily reachable and equally easy to use.


Conclusions:

The piano certainly delivers lots of sound, with a responsive action, and plenty of colour. Missing from the K800 is a sense of intimacy that I enjoy on some of my most favorite upright pianos...but in speaking with many pianists, I’m in the minority on this - the closer to a grand experience they can get on an upright, the better. And in this regard, the K800 comes the closest in terms of touch and overal tonal response than I’ve witnessed from any upright outside of the Steingraeber or C. Bechstein top-end uprights. Mind you, now we’re tripling the price over the k800.


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