Tradition and innovation are combined in the Kawai Novus NV5S to create an outstanding hybrid digital piano. In short, a hybrid digital piano is a digital piano that incorporates acoustic components. The NV5S is equipped with an acoustic action with a damper mechanism, providing the essential feel of playing a premium-quality acoustic piano. The piano’s sound is not acoustic; it is produced by a digital sound source featuring the latest digital voices and amplification technologies. This rich combination of acoustic and digital elements ensures that the NV5S offers everything a pianist could need.

The Kawai NV5S comes with the Digital Piano Service Package, worth €150, which includes:

• Free delivery within the Benelux and very affordable shipping rates abroad.
• Piano installation
• 5-year warranty

Mechanism

A unique feature of the NV5S is the acoustic Millennium III mechanism with 6,000 parts located inside the piano. Normally, a digital piano does not have an acoustic mechanism, despite the fact that this offers a major advantage. The piano plays like a real acoustic piano, ensuring the best playing experience. In addition to the acoustic Millennium III action, the NV5S also features three acoustic pedals, namely damper, soft and sostenuto, to further enhance this effect. The components of the mechanism are made of carbon, a strong, light and durable plastic, which offers several advantages. First of all, carbon is a reliable plastic, making the mechanism less sensitive to changing conditions than the wood normally used. Secondly, carbon is easier to work with than wood, minimising deviations between different hammers, which in turn improves reliability.

Optical sensors

The hammers in the mechanism are all individually weighted and covered with a felt top layer. The hammers transfer the pianist's playing to various optical sensors. These sensors replace the strings and register each keystroke very accurately, which is then reproduced via the speakers. This is what distinguishes the hybrid digital piano from a normal acoustic and digital piano.

Sounds

The NV5S has a total of 90 different sounds, including the Kawai Shigeru concert grand piano, offering endless playing possibilities. All these sounds are reproduced using Kawai SK-EX Rendering Technology. This advanced sampling method accurately samples each key from multiple angles, creating outstanding sounds.

These excellent sounds are projected by six different Onkyo speakers and Kawai's TwinDrive Soundboard system. With this system, Kawai has succeeded in reproducing a wide frequency spectrum directly through the soundboard. The soundboard is vibrated by two transducers. The result is that the vibrations are reproduced just like a real acoustic piano, giving the sound excellent acoustic quality. The system is therefore of much better quality than a standard digital piano speaker system.

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