misterharrison

Thanks for taking the time to reply, Jeff (?). That's a good point about Kawai being more focused on the home market, while the stage market has quite a lot of recent competition. However, unless they plan to abandon the stage market altogether, I would hope that they would see all this competition as a reason to update their own stage offerings. And I believe their stage models (MP series) are still seen as "the player's choice" due to their globally-recognised keybeds/actions. Nord felt it was worth putting one of their actions in the Nord Grand, after all. Thanks for the tip about the other forum - I might ask over there as well. Will

What do we think about the likelihood of Kawai releasing updated models for their MP range in the near future? I am especially interested in the MP7SE. 2014 Kawai release the MP7 2017 Kawai release the MP7SE 2021 ...? I like the keybed and the sounds of the MP7SE but feel the user interface could do with a bit of a refresh, in light of recent releases by Yamaha, Korg etc. I don't want to splash out on an MP7SE only for Kawai to release a new model shortly afterwards!