I have decided to part with my 1991 Kawai SR7 digital theatre organ. It's in excellent condition and has been meticulously maintained. The console is unmarked. Kawai did a great job of combining draw bars with push-button voicing, and with 3 manuals, a full 25 note pedal bar and built-in Leslie, the range of musical sounds is virtually unlimited.I'm located in the middleof the north-east quadrant of the US where very few interesting organs come up for sale. This one is well-worth a look.</P>
I'll put in a shameless plug here to let potential buyers know just how goodyour SR7 is. Great flute drawbars, real leslie. Smooth strings, nice brass, woodwing and reed ensembles, double synth on the third manual, with couplers to the middle manual. For a 1987 organ its solo voicing is great. Only weak spot is the piano - not the best in its class, unfortunately, but the rest of the percussions are much better. Rhythms and automatics are straightforward but very usable.</P>
I could go on and on (and have done before) but most people on here know I'm a little biased. The SR6/7 are very much my babies, as I was effectively heading the European design group back in 1984/5 when we first started talking about these organs and carried on until the launch in 1987. The European group got things alltheir way on this series - yahoo! There's a lot that's 'mine' in them.</P>
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Thanks for the reference.This is truly an appealing instrument and I am really pleased to be in touch with one of its founding fathers. I agree with you about the piano voice (and that comes from a player devoted to the piano for more than forty years) However, with so much versatility, one cannot ask for everything. My reason for its disposal is that I have another on the way and my wonderful wife has (gently) put down her foot. Good to hear from you!</P>
Thanks for your enquiry. I have to admit that I am always hesitant to set a price for such an item, especially when the price I get will be no better or worse than what the buyer and I decide is mutually acceptable, and sinceI have seen many salesthwarted by a price that mayappear to betoo high, I will not state that my price is firm. I have seen organs such as this advertised out west at about$1500 to $2500. Add shipping and you are upabove$3000 or more if it is coming here to Western New York orfurther east. That said, Iexpect a fair selling price should be in the range of $2000. To my way of thinking, that would be a bargain for a buyer who resides close by. I would be happy to supply a picture by Email on request.</P>
I bought a SR7 last December for $2300, certainly top price then for an amazing sound with a medium to fair finish on the cabinetry. But it was LOVE at first sight. What could I do? I myself have wrinkles and spots! I probably could have haggled it down to $2000, but I was satisfied with the deal as it was.</P>
It was loaded onto the truck by the seller's tuners/movers, and cost $50 for movers here to unload. UHaul truck was about $300. I am totally happy with it.</P>
And if you have questions, AndyG has the answers.</P>
Make that STILL available. This organ appears to be a tough sell, although with the number of organ available for sale in the western New York area as low as it is, I was hoping for a more active response.Its condition is excellent. All offers welcome and my price expectations are well lowered. I have a mover all set for its relocation in the early part of July.</P>
When the SR7 came out in 1987 it's UK price was £7995. AFAIK the US prices were pretty much the same as ours (dictated to some extent by our lords and Masters in Japan).Our price didn't change until the SR70 replaced it a few years later (1990/91)
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Hope you enjoy playing your SR7 as much as I did working with the design team and then playing it in many, many concerts. It's a great organ.
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Hi Andy I forgot to ask can you glean from the S/N it is 517303 the Mfg date? It is supposed to be a 1990 model. Or is there somewhere inside the consul whereI could find it. Its just beautiful and great sound Im a 72 old kid.</p>
I no longer have the serial number/date lists, sorry. There were problems with the first batch of SR6's and SR7's and replacement chips were issued for the organs up to a certain serial #. I can recall that the numbers of those early UK ones were in the 4xxxxx range, so yours is later than that. </p>
You could also have a look at the RAM card slot. If there's a notch in the bottom lip, it's a late model, designed to take an EC series card. Early models had no notch and took the DC series card.</p>
Hope that may help, however do remember that it was quite common for large instruments to be in stock at the manufacturer and then the dealer for some time (regardless of make) so some 'new' instruments were actually manufactured a year or two earlier.</p>
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ThanksAndy mine does have the notch in the EC card slot. It came with about 60 music books and about 25 cassette Tapes with lessons and organ music 1980's vintage just perfect for me as I need a refresher course. The folks that originally owned it traveled around the US when Organ conventions were the thing to do. The people disposing of it were very very generous I couldn't pass it up. My Organ inventory as of today is 6 I sill have the Hammond H +another for parts, a Hammond Elegante 340212, a real sweetheart,a Thomas 871B, Technics SX-EA5,and the Kawai SR5, any more and Im sure Wife will have me committed. Thank you again.</p>
Hi Andy, Today was my first chance to check out my SR7 It may just be me but I find it very complicated to set up also it has great tibias and synthe. sounds but i have not been able to set a Pipe organ sound. I have gone through all the card registers but nothing that I would consider close to Pipe Organ sound. Am I missing something here or is that just the way it is. I find it has power to burn lots of volume. If you can find time.</p>
No, there are no proper pipe organ sounds on board. I wanted some, but the overall idea was for a more orchestral instrument and I was over-ruled. I revoiced the company's K1m expander box with Hammond, Wersi, theatre and classical organ sounds to fill in the 'hole' and we sold them by the bucketload. They come up on eBay from time to time but you probably won't be able to get my programmed RAM cards any more.</p>
It shouldn't be that hard to get around, certainly a lot simpler than the digital wonders that followed. If you need a hand finding sounds, let me know. Again, I did some RAM cards with loads of settings but they're long gone now.</p>
Andy
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