Ned Frankly - Kawai K5 - RESOLVED Sticky Key issue
Channel: Ned Frankly
Date: 03/08/2016

The Kawai K5 is famous for a few things. One is a beautiful, multidimensional sound. The other is sticky selector keys. Guess which one keeps you from getting to the others...

In this video, we'll walk through an experiment Ned did with our K5. The 12 program selector keys had become unusable, so that we were not able to select more than a couple of sounds out of each bank without an outside midi program change.

The experiment: Dunk the boards that hold the buttons in isopropyl alcohol, blow them dry, and reassemble. Our immediate worked quite well. Still takes some determination to press the 7 and 8, but it seems to be getting better.