Kawai CA-59 - satin white

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Concert Artist performance at an affordable price.

The Kawai CA59 is a premium digital piano that merges concert-grade performance with elegant design. At its core is the Grand Feel Compact wooden-key action, engineered to replicate the authentic touch of a concert grand in a space-efficient form.

A piano that will encourage enthusiastic players to become accomplished pianists, and transform living rooms into grand concert halls. This is the ambitious philosophy behind Kawai’s latest Concert Artist series – premium instruments that capture the essence of playing a magnificent concert grand piano, and inspire musicians of all ages and abilities to realise their true artistic potential.

The CA59 is the latest Kawai digital piano to utilise the superb Grand Feel Compact wooden-key keyboard action. As its name suggest, the GF Compact action has been designed to reproduce the authentic touch weight characteristics of the industry-leading Grand Feel keyboard actions, within a smaller form factor.

In addition to grade-weighted hammers, the Grand Feel Compact keyboard action also features counterweights attached towards the front of the bass keys.

The Grand Feel Compact keyboard action utilises an accurate triple-sensor key detection system for enhanced playing realism.

The added third sensor improves responsiveness when playing the same key repeatedly, and unlike conventional two sensor keyboard actions found in many digital pianos, allows the sound of a single note to be gradually ‘layered’ without the previous tone being lost.

The impressive CA59 features Kawai’s highly regarded Ivory Touch key surfaces as standard. This finely textured material gently absorbs fingertip perspiration and oils to assist playing control, and possesses a natural, matte finish that is smooth but not slippery.

Earning a reputation as the ‘premier pianos of Japan’, Shigeru Kawai instruments grace the stages of concert halls and musical institutions throughout the world, and are prized for their outstanding tonal clarity and exceptional dynamic range.

The new CA59 captures the magnificent tone of two premier Shigeru Kawai instruments: the flagship SK-EX Concert and mid-sized SK-5 Studio grand pianos, allowing musicians to enjoy the contrasting properties of each.

- Class-leading Grand Feel Compact wooden-key keyboard action

- Ivory Touch key surfaces, triple sensor, let-off, counterweights

- Harmonic Imaging XL sound engine with 88-key sampling

- Shigeru Kawai SK-EX, SK-5, & Kawai EX grand piano sounds

- Powerful 100W, high-fidelity 4-speaker delivery system

Integrated Bluetooth MIDI and Audio wireless technology

- MP3/WAV/SMF playback, record, and overdub to USB

- Built-in classical etudes and Alfred lesson books

- Spatial Headphone Sound for enhanced depth and realism

- Premium cabinet with cheekblock control panel and OLED display

Grand Feel Compact action:

- 88 wooden keys

- Grade-weighted hammers

- Ivory Touch white key surfaces

- Let-off simulation

- Triple sensor key detection

- Bass region counterweights

Grand Feel Pedal System:

- Damper (with half-pedal support)

- Soft

- Sostenuto

Harmonic Imaging XL (HI-XL):

- 88-key stereo sampling

- SK-EX, EX recording

- 256 note maximum polyphony

Acoustic Rendering:

- Damper Resonance

- String Resonance

- Undamped String Resonance

- Cabinet Resonance

Virtual Technician (21 parameters):

- Touch Curve (incl. User Touch Curve)

- Voicing (incl. 88-key User Voicing)

- Damper Resonance

- Damper Noise

- String Resonance

- Undamped String Resonance

- Cabinet Resonance

- Key-off Effect

- Fall-back Noise

- Hammer Noise

- Hammer Delay

- Topboard Simulation

- Decay Time

- Release Time

- Minimum Touch

- Stretch Tuning (incl. 88-key User Tuning)

- Temperament (incl. User Temperament)

- Temperament Key

- Key Volume (incl. 88-key User Key Volume)

- Half-Pedal Adjust

- Soft Pedal Depth

- No. of Sounds: 44 voices

- Reverb: 6 types

- Other Effects: 24 types

Speakers:

- 13 cm x 2 (woofer)

- (8 x 12 cm) x 2 (top speaker)

- Output Power: 100 W (50 W x 2)

Headphone Enhancements:

- Spatial Headphone Sound

- Headphone Type

- Display: 128 x 64 pixel OLED

- Key Cover: Sliding type

- Music Rest: Collapsible type (3 angle adjustability)

Basic Functions:

- Dual

- Split

- Four Hands

- Transpose

- Tuning

- Low Volume Balance

- Registration

- Startup Setting

- Sound Demo: 33 songs

- Concert Magic: 176 songs

- Total Memory: approximately 90,000 notes

- Time Signatures: 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 3/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, 12/8

- Record/Playback: MP3, WAV, SMF

- Power Consumption: 45 W