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Experience Kawai’s flagship K600 at Cambridge Pianoforte’s showroom, where over 50 years of expertise meets the pinnacle of professional upright piano engineering. As one of the UK’s longest-serving Kawai agents, we’re proud to keep this extraordinary instrument in stock for you to play and compare.
Kawai K600 – Uncompromising Professional Performance
At 134cm tall, the K600 stands at the apex of Kawai’s professional upright piano range. This is an instrument designed without compromise, built to deliver the tonal richness, dynamic range, and expressive subtlety that demanding professionals require. Every aspect of the K600’s design focuses on one goal: enabling the pianist to express even the smallest tonal nuance with complete control and clarity.
The Kawai K600’s extraordinary capability comes from the perfect marriage of superior materials, advanced engineering, and master craftsmanship. Extended string lengths, a large soundboard area, and sophisticated scaling combine to produce an instrument that rivals many grand pianos in tonal depth and projection, whilst maintaining the space-saving advantages of an upright configuration.
This is the instrument chosen by professional musicians, conservatoire practice rooms, and serious pianists who refuse to compromise on quality. When the music demands everything from you, the Kawai K600 delivers everything in return.
The Millennium III Action: Ultimate Responsiveness
At the heart of the K600 lies Kawai’s revolutionary Millennium III action – the same ground breaking technology that has transformed professional upright piano performance worldwide. Featuring components made from ABS-Carbon (an advanced composite created by infusing carbon fibre into Kawai’s renowned ABS Styran), this action is incredibly sturdy and rigid, allowing the creation of parts that are lighter without sacrificing strength.
A stronger, faster action that offers more power, better control, and greater stability than conventional all-wood actions, essential when the music demands split-second precision, perfect control across the entire dynamic spectrum, and flawless repetition in rapid passages.
For the professional pianist, this translates to an action that responds intuitively to every musical intention. From the whisper-quiet pianissimos of late Beethoven to the thunderous fortissimos of Rachmaninoff, from the delicate filigree of Chopin to the percussive attacks of Prokofiev – the K-600’s action gives you complete mastery over every musical gesture.
Extended Keys for Professional Control
The Kawai K600 features extended key length throughout the keyboard – a design refinement that transforms the playing experience. Longer keys provide more even response from the front to the back of the playing surface, giving you greater control and more power with less effort. This is particularly valuable when navigating complex polyphonic textures or executing rapid passages that demand both power and precision.
The extended key design reduces physical fatigue during extended practice sessions or performances, allowing you to maintain technical control and musical focus even in the most demanding repertoire.
Precision Engineering Throughout
Three die-cast aluminium action brackets, formed from custom moulds to ensure exact uniformity, provide exceptional strength and stability. These brackets maintain accurate touch and consistent regulation over years of intensive professional use – ensuring the K600’s extraordinary responsiveness remains constant whether you’re playing your first piece of the day or your fiftieth.
The action features mahogany hammer cores, lightweight and extremely responsive, found only on the finest pianos. Each hammer is T-stapled to preserve its shape and fitted with an added interior layer of underfelt to support exceptional tone creation. This meticulous attention to detail ensures perfect consistency across all 88 keys, allowing you to focus entirely on musical expression rather than compensating for instrument limitations.
NEOTEX Key Surfaces: Grand Piano Refinement
The K600 features Kawai’s exclusive NEOTEX key surface material on both sharps and naturals – the same sophisticated surface found on Kawai’s finest grand pianos. Made with cellulose fibre, NEOTEX offers the smooth, understated texture of natural ivory and ebony, with a semi-porous, silica-filled surface that absorbs the hand’s natural oils and perspiration to prevent slipping.
This is crucial for professional performance and intensive practice. NEOTEX provides secure contact even during the most physically demanding passages or in warm performance conditions, whilst offering the tactile refinement that allows you to feel and control every subtle gradation of touch. The material resists cracking and fading over years of intensive use, maintaining its superior playing characteristics throughout the instrument’s lifetime.
Engineered for Extraordinary Tone
The Large Tapered Soundboard: Heart of Expression
The soundboard is the heart of any piano, transforming string vibrations into rich, resounding tone. Kawai uses only straight-grained, quarter-sawn solid spruce for K600 soundboards, each strategically tapered to maximise tone-producing capability. Only soundboards meeting or exceeding Kawai’s demanding quality standards are selected for use in their professional upright pianos.
At 134cm tall – the maximum practical height for an upright piano, the K600’s large soundboard and extended string lengths produce tonal depth, warmth, and projection that approaches grand piano quality. The soundboard is carefully tapered from bass to treble range, optimising resonance across the entire sound spectrum.
The result is an instrument capable of extraordinary tonal beauty: singing clarity in the treble that carries without harshness, a midrange with warmth and presence that supports melodic lines with vocal quality, and bass registers with depth, power, and clarity that provide solid harmonic foundation. The K600 delivers the complete tonal palette required for serious repertoire – from baroque counterpoint to contemporary works.
Professional Harmonic Development
The K600’s sophisticated acoustic design ensures rich harmonic development and long, singing sustain. The instrument produces the characteristically refined, warm tone that Kawai is celebrated for, particularly valued by professional musicians for its musical expressiveness, tonal beauty, and remarkable clarity even in complex harmonic textures.
This is an instrument that allows you to explore the full range of tonal colour in the piano literature, capable of the intimate, introspective qualities required for Schubert, the brilliant clarity needed for Mozart, the romantic warmth essential for Schumann, and the power and colour demanded by twentieth-century repertoire.
Built for Professional Demands
Uncompromising Construction
The K600’s construction reflects its position at the pinnacle of professional upright piano design. The steel-reinforced keyslip prevents warping or bending with changes in humidity, ensuring keys move freely with virtually no possibility of rubbing or sticking, essential reliability for professional performance and teaching.
The piano’s keybed is constructed from sturdy laminated hardwoods and reinforced by rear braces on the cast iron frame. This robust foundation supports the action assembly and maintains precise regulation over years of intensive professional use, whilst preventing energy loss through enhanced rigidity.
Every aspect of the K600’s construction is engineered for longevity and consistent performance under the most demanding conditions. This is an instrument built to maintain its extraordinary performance characteristics throughout decades of professional use.
The Professional’s Ultimate Choice
The Kawai K600’s uncompromising specifications and exceptional tonal qualities make it the ideal instrument for:
- Professional concert pianists requiring the finest upright piano for home practice
- Conservatoire practice rooms demanding instruments worthy of advanced students and professional preparation
- Professional teachers who need an instrument capable of demonstrating the subtlest aspects of technique and tonal production
- Recording studios seeking professional-quality upright piano tone
- Serious musicians working at the highest levels of repertoire and performance
- Institutions where only the very best will suffice
This is not simply an excellent upright piano, the K600 is an instrument that challenges the distinction between upright and grand piano performance, offering professional musicians a viable alternative when space constraints make a grand piano impractical.
Upgrade to Silent Technology
The Kawai K600 is also available with Kawai’s ATX4 Silent System factory-fitted – transforming this exceptional instrument into the ultimate practice piano. The ATX4 system captures the true touch and response of the Millennium III action with NEOTEX key surfaces, whilst offering the convenience of silent practice through headphones – perfect for professionals who need to practise at any hour without compromise.
Ask our team about the Kawai K600 ATX4 model when you visit.
The Cambridge Pianoforte Difference
When you choose to purchase your Kawai K600 from Cambridge Pianoforte, you’re entrusting your investment to Cambridge’s most established and respected piano specialists. As an independent, family-run business celebrating over 50 years of service, we bring unparalleled expertise to every aspect of your piano ownership.
Our comprehensive professional service includes:
- Expert delivery and installation by our trained technicians at a time convenient for you (see Delivery tab for full details)
- Complimentary tuning package with your new piano purchase
- Ongoing technical support from technicians trained at Steinway’s Hamburg facility – the same professionals trusted by world-renowned pianists and Cambridge’s most prestigious concert venues including Trinity College, King’s College, Cambridge Corn Exchange, West Road Concert Hall, and Saffron Hall
- Specialist regulation and voicing services to maintain your K600’s professional performance standards and tailor the instrument to your specific tonal and touch preferences
- Expert consultation on piano placement, room acoustics, and instrument care
- Showroom experience where you can play and compare instruments, including the opportunity to experience the K-600 alongside other professional models
Visit our Cambridge showroom to experience the Kawai K600’s extraordinary capabilities for yourself, or call us to discuss how this flagship instrument could transform your musical life.
Please refer to the Specification tab for detailed dimensions and weight information. Full delivery information, returns policy, and terms and conditions are available in their respective tabs.
Ready to experience the pinnacle of upright piano performance? Call Cambridge Pianoforte or visit our showroom – we’re here to help.
