Kawai GX-2 grand piano in polished ebony

A perfect blend of time honoured craftsmanship and innovation

The design concept of the GX Series is to pursue new details of elegance and to utilise modern materials and manufacturing process to improve performance, all while preserving the time honoured and treasured design of an acoustic grand piano. A traditionally styled cabinet with elegant sweeping curves, wide music desk with specially designed hard finish to prevent scratches and soft-closing fallboard encloses a considered and technologically advanced instrument.

Millennium III Action

The ground-breaking Millennium III Action utilises components made of ABS-Carbon—a composite material infused with carbon fibre. ABS-Carbon is incredibly strong and rigid, meaning that GX Series action parts can be made lighter without sacrificing strength. The result is a stronger, faster action that offers more power, better control and greater stability than conventional all-wood actions.

Tapered, solid spruce soundboard

The purpose of the soundboard is to amplify the vibrations of the piano’s strings to produce a rich, resounding tone. Kawai uses only straight-grained, quarter-sawn solid spruce for soundboards, rigorously tested to ensure their exacting quality standards are met. Each one is strategically tapered to provide the optimum degree of resonant movement in each region. Materials for the rim of the piano are carefully considered, a layered hybrid of different hardwoods designed to enhance rigidity and consequently power and projection.

Premium grade hammer materials

The hammers of the GX2 are of solid mahogany, covered with a refined hammer felt from the finest quality long-haired Australian and New Zealand wool. With a soft exterior and solid core, the hammers are specially designed to respond perfectly to pianissimo and fortissimo playing and deliver a broad range of tonality, while a layer of underfelt provides long lasting resilience.

Duplex scaling

Duplex scaling enables the non speaking parts of the string to resonate, thus enhancing the harmonics produced in the upper tenor and treble registers and adding a wonderful richness to the tone.

Quality control and bespoke setup

With fantastic build and component quality throughout, the Kawai GX-2 is beautifully set up by Kawai's factory technicians. Known as 'Circles of Refinement', technicians regulate the action and voice the hammers before the piano is played in by machine, and the process repeated over and over again. This brings out the very best tonal quality and ensures the action is perfectly adjusted. Our technicians regulate and service the piano once more at our Haslemere piano workshop prior to delivery, thus ensuring the piano is ready for a lifetime of service.

Upgrade your piano experience with Kawai

Kawai has teamed up with Zapiano, Skoove and Tomplay to offer a free 3 month trial period for each platform when you register your new Kawai acoustic upright, grand or digital piano.

Skoove

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Tomplay

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Zapiano

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