Kawai GX-6 Grand Piano

The GX-6 BLAK combines exquisite tone with stunning beauty to offer an instrument befitting the finest concert hall or professional studio. It was designed with performance in mind and is equipped with intelligent design elements that will help the artist communicate at the highest-level with excellence and ease.

In every way, the GX-6 grand piano is designed to deliver aesthetic and artistic beauty at the hands of the skilled artist. It’s 7’0″ scale design produces beautiful, balanced tone that will surely inspire in the studio or on the recital stage. The exclusive NEOTEX™ key surfaces on both the sharps and naturals will absorb the hand’s natural oils and perspiration to help prevent slipping in performance situations.

Artists appreciate the smoother tonal transition between the bass and treble registers made possible by the GX-6’s single, continuous bridge design. And our exclusive Millennium III Grand Piano Action with carbon composite parts helps to ensure precise, consistent touch for the player over time. With its impressive array of performance features, the GX-6 BLAK Performance Series Grand Piano is a concert instrument that every pianist should experience.

Highlights

• Kawai’s Exclusive Millennium III Action – Featuring ABS-Carbon Technology with Carbon Fiber
• Exclusive NEOTEX™ Key Surfaces – With moisture-absorbing properties for greater touch control
• Konsei Katagi Rim – Utilizing a blend of distinctive hardwoods to achieve an ideal balance of tone
• Vertically Laminated Bridge with Solid Maple Cap – For enhanced energy transfer
• Continuous Bridge – For smoother transitions between bass and treble registers
• Elegant Appointments – Brass Lid Prop and Cups, Brass Finials on Plate, Beveled Lid Edges, Spade Legs
• Hard Finish Music Desk – To preserve the piano’s beauty
• Stretcher Over-Lap Integrated Design (SOLID) – Double-width Stretcher Bar for optimum strength
• Extended Length Keysticks – For more even response from the front to the back of each key
• Concert-Length Key Buttons – Doubled in length to provide maximum energy transfer and optimum power
• Solid Spruce Precision Tapered Soundboard – Permanently crowned for long-term stability
• Advanced Scale Designs – Created in the Shigeru Kawai Research and Development Laboratory
• Dual-Duplex Scaling – For added tonal richness
• Multi-Grip Pin Block – Laminated with 11 plies
• Solid Brass Agraffes – For even string spacing and easier tuning
• Steel-Reinforced, Multi-Laminated Keybed – For strength and optimum energy transfer
• Steel-Reinforced Keyslip – For strength and stability that avoids sticking keys
• V-Pro Plate – Gray Iron with “Crossbone” Design
• Ultra-slow “Soft Fall” Fallboard Closing System
• Adjustable Artist Bench (Polished Ebony finish only)
• KAWAI Ten Year FULL Transferable Manufacturer’s Warranty

Specifications

• Size 

Length: 7'0" (214 cm) 

Width: 5'2" (154 cm) 

Height: 3'4" (102 cm) 

Weight: 842 lbs. (382 kg) 

 

• Touch 

White Key Surfaces: NEOTEX™ 

Black Key Surfaces: NEOTEX™ 

Action: Millennium III Action with Carbon Fiber 

Hammers: All Underfelted 

 

• Sound 

Soundboard: Solid Spruce, Tapered 

Agraffes: 1st - 54th Key 

Duplex Scaling: Fore & Back 

Back Posts: 4 

 

• Exterior Design 

Pedals: Damper, Sostenuto, Soft 

Casters: Double, Brass 

Lid Props: 3 

Fallboard: "Soft Fall" Closing System 

Music Rack Position: 5 Positions 

Hard Finish: ✔ 

Lock: ✔ 

 

• Other Features 

Stretcher Over-Lap Integrated Design (SOLID) 

Longer Keys 

Steel-Reinforced Keyslip & Keybed 

V-Pro Plate 

CORE System 

Vertically Laminated Treble Bridge 

Konsei Katagi Rim with Blended Dense Hardwoods