Three types of grand piano sounds are built in, including the SK-EX, Kawai's top-of-the-line concert grand piano. The wooden grand feel action keyboard reproduces authentic touch and delicate expression, and five types of amplifier simulators and input/output terminals for a variety of scenes enable high-quality monitoring. Includes a virtual technician function that allows the user to adjust the piano's tuning and tonal character as desired. This is a professional stage piano.

● Equipped with three types of grand piano sounds, including the SK-EX concert grand piano, the pinnacle of its class

The SK-EX concert grand piano and the SK-5 medium-sized grand piano from Shigeru Kawai, Kawai's best grand piano series, are newly equipped. Also included is the Kawai Concert Grand Piano EX, which was actually used in the Chopin International Piano Competition, the world's most prestigious piano competition, for a total of three models with built-in grand piano sounds.

For these piano recordings, we selected the best pianos and tuned them by a top-level tuner (*MPA), which is only possible with Kawai's expertise in piano manufacturing. The HI-XL sound source realizes smooth tone changes from weak to strong blows and realistic piano sound with less muddy chords and extended decay, expressing the full quality of the piano sound.

A wide variety of built-in tones

The built-in voices consist of three sections (PIANO, E.PIANO, and SUB), each of which has its own controls, including a volume fader, effects, reverb control, and tone variations.

By dividing the tones into sections by category, settings such as layer, split, key range, and effects can be operated as independent instruments without affecting the other sections.

This organized voice group structure allows for immediate voice changes even during live performances, and the currently selected voice can be viewed at a glance. Tone parameters are displayed on the center LCD, and knobs can be turned to adjust tone and effect parameters while playing. Furthermore, the user can preassign his or her favorite parameters to be displayed on the screen.

Virtual Technician function allows the user to create the piano sound as desired.

The exceptional skills of a skilled piano tuner are essential to bring out the best performance from a concert grand piano. In addition to accurately tuning tones, they also make various tonal adjustments to ensure that the piano is capable of playing true music.

The Virtual Technician function changes the character of the piano tone by simulating the tuner's tuning work. Various items can be adjusted in real time, such as touch weight, hammer hardness adjustment, noise adjustment when fingers leave the keyboard, string resonance, opening and closing of the large roof, damper resonance, etc.

Virtual Technician is also available for electric pianos. It can be made to sound old-fashioned or in its new and just-shipped condition.

Equipped with an amp simulator

The tone character of the amp and cabinet is an important factor in determining the tone of a vintage electric guitar. The amp simulator allows you to play with analog-like warmth and thickness of tone.

In addition to five different amp types, drive level and volume can be finely controlled, and an equalizer and tone edit function are also provided. In addition, the type of microphone that collects the amp's sound, the placement of the microphones, and the volume of distant stereo microphones can be adjusted. The amp simulator, with its infinite combinations, brings even more fun to vintage electric piano tones.

Stage Piano

■Keyboard: Keyboard

88 keys / seesaw wooden keyboard

Grand feel action

Ivory touch (ivory finish)

Let-off feel

Piano sound source: HI-XL 88-key stereo sampling piano sound source

Number of tones: 40

Effects: 6 reverbs, 129 others

Input/output terminals

Headphone: 1 channel (stereo standard plug)

MIDI: IN, OUT, THRU

Line Out: Standard (L/MONO, R), XLR (L, R, with GND LIFT switch)

Line in: L/MONO, R

USB to Host: B terminal

USB to Device: ○

Other: FOOT CONTROLLER (with EXP terminal, FSW terminal, GFP-3 terminal, and EXP TYPE switch)

Dimensions: W 1380 x H 190 x D 452mm (excluding music stand)

Weight: 34kg

Accessories

Warranty Card

Instruction Manual

GFP-3 (3 pedals: damper (half-pedal compatible)/soft/sostenuto)

Music stands