🎹 Shigeru Kawai SK-3 Grand Piano: 6’ 2” (188 cm) Japanese Synergy of Elegance & Excellence 🎹 скачать в хорошем качестве

🎹 Shigeru Kawai SK-3 Grand Piano: 6’ 2” (188 cm) Japanese Synergy of Elegance & Excellence 🎹

🛒 Get the Shigeru Kawai SK-3▸https://www.merriammusic.com/product/... 🛒 See More Shigeru Kawai Pianos▸ https://www.merriammusic.com/product-... 💕 Subscribe to Merriam Pianos HERE ▸ http://bit.ly/SubscribeMerriam 🔔 Click the 🔔 bell to be notified of all videos! ▸ http://bit.ly/SubscribeMerriam Hey everyone, thanks again for joining us! Today, we are looking at the Shigeru Kawai six foot SK3 piano. A truly amazing six foot grand piano is one of those prized instruments pianos players seek out and treasure when they wind up in front of one. To achieve that kind of magic on a six foot piano it usually falls into a very elevated price point, usually in the $100,000 dollars and up range. But over the last 20 years there have been several new entrants into the market that have created some truly magical pianos at well below that price point. And Shigeru Kawai is definitely one of those names that comes to mind. To be honest these pianos have gotten so good that I can’t believe that Kawai is still charging what they are charging for them. Let’s start by covering what makes this piano so special. Firstly, the SK3 uses a much higher level of hard rock maple content than any previous generation of any Kawai grand. It doesn’t go as far as a New York Steinway, which uses all maple, but the use of hard rock maple along with mahogany and beech wood, means that you are getting an abundance of colour in the sound that responds differently across all dynamic ranges. This to me really adds to the SK3 playing experience, you get a tremendous amount of character and colour at every dynamic level and at every part of the instrument. Another major component of this instrument is how robust the frame and rim is. It’s capable of resonating at a number of different frequencies due to the different wood content. It’s also quite thick and rigid so it can preserve a tremendous amount of energy as well. Another aspect of this piano is the fanatical amount of prep and regulation that goes into it before it leaves the factory. This work is done by a spate team of piano artisans at the Kawai factory. These pianos come out of the crate beautifully voices, regulated, and stable. The next element that elevates these instruments is the source and quality of the soundboard material. The SK3’s soundboard uses Sika spruce sourced from Alaska. This is the same grade of material that New York Steinway is sourcing. It send s to give a slightly warmer character to the sound versus white spruce. When all of this comes together in this six foot two piano, the sound experience is truly a chameleon. At certain points it can sound like a Hamburg Steinway, at times the tone is so colourful it can sound like a Fazioli, and other times Kawai’s own nature shines through in the brilliant treble as well as in the bass and low end. The essence of the tone is hard to describe, and velvety is the best I can come up with. There’s just this soft aura around each and every note and tone, it’s just perfect. It also has beautiful sustain and a nice blended sound that trends in a more Steinway esq. Direction. The treble has quite a unique character to it as well. What I like about the treble is there is a really clear sense of the fundamental, but there is a lot of colour around the sound that is very clear, yet beautifully complex. All in all the SK3 will give you a lot of warmth, a lot of colour and a huge amount of variety in the piano tone. Thank you very much for checking out today’s video, please be sure to like and subscribe along with hitting that notification bell, and we’ll see you again next time.