Hi, I'm Rudi from Better Music. I'm just here today with the Kawai KDP90, which is Kawai's
entry-level home piano that sells very well - it's a lovely piano to play. It suits pretty
much anyone who wants to have a go at playing the piano, primarily aimed at perhaps a starter
or someone who's a bit more intermediate, but it's got a beautiful touch. They use Kawai's
advanced hammer-action, which has a very very nice feel, it's graded from the top to the
bottom, so it's heavier at the bottom and lighter at the top - just like on a real grand
piano. The sounds they use are meticulously recorded from the Shiguru Kawai concert grand,
using their very high-technology - it's called harmonic imaging. It's Kawai's own techology
for recording sound, which produces a very clear and crisp, and very accurate rendition
of an acoustic piano. Also, with that technology it features 192 note polyphony. Polyphony
is the amount of notes that the piano can play at once. Because Kawai multi-sample all
the notes, on multiple levels it takes up a fair bit of memory, and with 192 note polyphony
you can actually play it, it won't run out of notes and the piano will perform really,
really well. So, I'll run through a couple of little features on the KDP90, just perhaps
show you a few of the sounds and you can get more of an idea. You heard the piano sound
to start with, that's the concert grand piano. There are some other pianos sounds in here
as well, so we'll go over the next one, which is a classical piano.
And again, just some of the other sounds... Electric piano...
Yeah, I like those sounds, they're some of my favourite,
as you've probably seen on my other videos, electric pianos are cool. Just a few more sounds...
So that's the Hammond organ. Quite cleverly, and unlike a lot of other manufacturers, Kawai
have allowed the left pedal on the piano to control the rotating speaker or Leslie function
of a Hammond organ, so you can actually...
Very, very cool indeed.
Also, some very nice string sounds.
You can also layer those sounds together, so you can have piano and strings
at the same time.
So that's just a few of the sounds, you've got 15 sounds in total
on the piano. They've also got some very high definition reverbs, so the piano sounds are
sounding very realistic and you can have hall, you can have a room reverb - so, recreate
the acoustics of a particular room. Also built into the piano is a very accurate pedal system,
so the grand piano pedal actually feels like a real grand piano, the actual mechanism,
the feel is very accurate. So, that adds to the experience of playing the piano as well.
You've also got some built-in lessons, so some of the Alfred's lesson books, which you
can buy from our sheet music department, they have the actual songs from those first two
or three books inside the piano, so you can play along with them. Also, you've got a recording
function in the piano, so I can very easily record anything I want to play. So let's just
quickly do that...
And then I can play that back...
So, a little bit of fun can be had
there and of course very handy for learning as well, because you can record left hand
and play along with right hand. So that's most of the features that we've got here on
the piano, so again, this is the Kawai KDP90. It's available in this rosewood finish, it
comes with a stool and it's a very good piano, very good seller and it's at a very good price
as well. If you want to check it out, come into the store, have a look on the website,
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See you later.