AWK Keyboards and standardised product quality
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Danke auch meinerseits für den hochinteressanten wenn auch etwas deprimierenden Erfahrungsbericht.
Auch ich war jedesmal höchst angetan, wenn ich AWK ausprobierte; mich störten eher die ein wenig unsauber verarbeiteten Ecken und Kanten, obwohl sich das über die Jahre deutlich gebessert hat.
Nun aber frage ich mich ebenso wie Paolo: Warum nicht gleich Holz? 
Wir hatten darüber vor Zeiten eine Diskussion im Forum; wenn ich mich recht entsinne, blieb die Frage, warum die Hersteller nicht unisono zu Holzkernklaviaturen wechselten, offen. Mindestens kam es zu keiner unbestechlich stringenten Antwort. Der Fräsemaschine dürfte es egal sein, ob sie MDF oder Holz zurechtschneidet. Die Frage der Tastenauflage scheint mir im Vergleich zur "Kern"-Frage eher sekundär: Eine gute Kunststoffauflage ist möglicherweise qualitativ gleichauf mit Knochen oder Holz, vielleicht sogar besser.
Die Preisgestaltung bei Holzkernklaviaturen hat wahrscheinlich mehr Spielraum, als Hersteller derzeit einräumen. Solange solche Klaviaturen als Extra gehandelt werden, wird man auch fantastische Zuschläge für dieses Ausstattungsmerkmal fordern können. Die Gesetze des Marktes wurden ja bereits weiter oben erwähnt...
Auf Orgelsuche.
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I have owned my Sonus 40 (with AWK keyboards) since 2014, and I must say that despite daily use they have remained very stable.
Of course, after the first year of use the keyboard showed some irregularities in the height of the keys (this phenomenon is also found in new pianos), but nothing exaggerated.
I therefore took the opportunity to realign all the keyboards after one year (calibrated paper thicknesses are used, exactly as in the pianos) and exactly adjust the weight of the keys (148 gr in the first octave, and gradually scaling up to 134 in the highest octave. ).
Since then the keyboards have remained stable.
I noticed that in summer they become a little lighter by a few grams (verified) and in winter they return to their original weight. The phenomenon can have several explanations (perhaps in summer the wood increases in volume and the keys move away from the magnets, or perhaps the heat decreases the magnetic force of the neodymium magnets, although I don't believe much in the latter possibility).
The felt used in my AWK is of the hard type, and the lunge has remained stable over the years.
I didn't seem to notice poor workmanship, in fact, the cut is practically perfect (I suspect they use CNC milling machines).
Certainly after a few years, the most used keys began to wear out slightly on the surface but it is the exact same phenomenon that is found in wooden keyboard pipe organs and also in the harpsichord.
I don't know if Luca Panetti also builds a version with spruce keys, but it is likely that the photo shown by Paolo also has HDF keys: my keyboards have unpainted HDF keys and from a distance it looks like wood. In some versions I have seen dark painted HDF.
So I personally am quite satisfied with my AWKs, but I have no doubt that Paolo (or other organists) may have had problems.
On the other hand, I was very disappointed with the Fatar TP60LR keyboards than on the Sonus 60.
In my opinion, the quality of the TP 60 has dropped considerably over the years.
At one time these keyboards (when Ahlborn used them in the Hymnus series) had all the metal frame (the black one), they were solid, really professional.
Now to reduce costs they have replaced the black plastic frame, and although they have added reinforcement ribs, the overall strength has decreased (they flex).
I solved this behavior very well with some work, but I would have preferred that the Fatar had maintained a higher standard.
The keys have an "Ivory touch" finish that has completely worn out after less than a year, making the keys much rougher, with a very cheap plastic feel.
Hymnus organs (even without Ivory feel) had a much better resin quality than this.
Even Viscount keyboards (which are custom TP8s) have much higher resin quality. Here of course it is not Viscount's fault but Fatar's.
Unfortunately, the times in which the factory was managed by Lino Ragni have passed; now the son seems more interested in traveling the world and tasting the typical dishes of restaurants all over the world (as you can see on his twitter profile), rather than following the factory seriously.
It's a shame: there really seems to be no intention of continuing the factory: increasingly poor products, few innovations in recent years, practically non-existent customer service, very long order fulfillment times (up to four months for standard TP60s).
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