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Grand piano · 166 cmTwo years old, 166 cm, from Kawai’s GX BLAK series, and the most recent grand on our floor. The model and the serial are both cast and stamped into the plate, so that age is a matter of record rather than an estimate.
The GX-1 is the smallest grand in Kawai’s GX BLAK series, at 166 cm. That is the size most Singapore homes can actually take, and it is long enough that the bass strings have somewhere to go, which is the difference between a grand and a piece of furniture shaped like one.
GX BLAK is Kawai’s performance line, built in Japan, and it is where the company puts its Millennium III action with composite parts rather than all wood. The argument for that is dimensional stability in heat and humidity, which carries more weight here than it would in a temperate country.
This one is two years old. The serial stamped on the plate is 2783877 and it is photographed below, so that is checkable rather than something you have to take on trust. A grand of this age has barely started, which is the argument for buying pre-owned at the top of a range rather than new at the bottom of one.
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The same four we check ourselves before an instrument goes on the floor. Every instrument is an original used piano. Not reconditioned, not rebuilt. Ask us about any of them on a specific piano and you get a straight answer.
The Yamaha is the grand most people name first and there is more of it about second hand. The Kawai is warmer, and its composite action is the one built with this climate in mind. Play them next to each other and the choice tends to make itself.
Both, back to back, in the same room on the same afternoon. That is a fifteen minute job at the viewing gallery and it settles the question far better than any page can.
Two years old, and the serial stamped on its plate is 2783877, photographed on this page. Ask us and you get the year, not a range.
That is true of everything on the floor. Kawai prints a date inside its uprights and stamps a serial on its grands, so age is a fact here rather than a sales line.
In most cases yes, and the question is the route in rather than the room. A grand comes apart to travel, with the lid, legs and pedal lyre off, and goes back together where it will stand.
Tell us the address, the floor and whether there is a lift and we will confirm it before delivery day rather than on it.
Taste rather than quality. Kawai is generally warmer and rounder, Yamaha brighter and more direct, and the GX action uses composite parts that Kawai argues hold their shape better in humidity.
Both are on the floor. Fifteen minutes playing them back to back settles it better than any comparison written down.
It is priced on its own, like everything here, because condition and year decide most of the number. Ask about this instrument and you get a real figure, usually the same day.
All grands
180 cm and up
The size people ask for by name is around six feet. It is long enough to behave like a proper grand and short enough to place in a home or a small hall, which is why it is the most requested length we see.
Read about grand pianos →Yamaha
161 to 186 cm
The grand most people in Singapore mean when they say they want a grand. The real question is less which maker and more which length.
Read about it →Boston
A grand designed by Steinway and Sons and built in Japan by Kawai, for players who want that design thinking at a price a home can justify.
Read about it →Schimmel
A German grand from a maker that has built pianos since 1885. The one we photographed carries Made in Germany on its keyboard and the Schimmel crest inside the case.
Read about it →Message us with the model and we will tell you what is in, what condition it is in, and what it costs. If we have nothing suitable we will say that instead.
