I've attended the 'gakki fair' (at Yokohama Pacifico) a few times, but Kawai's presence there is typically focussed on acoustic pianos or home-oriented digital pianos.
I'd love to! Do you know of any keyboard exhibitions coming up? Had I known otherwise, I probably wouldn't have posted at all. I actually did think you guys were looking for feedback. Just a guy who works for a company, answering questions in his free time about a product he's closely involved with. Your feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated, however as noted above, the VPC1 - in its current generation, at least - is not going to change. The fact of the matter is that the VPC1 units shown at the Kawai and Synthogy booths at NAMM were production models, not early prototypes - the board is complete, and ready to ship. I apologise if I somehow gave you the impression that we were actively seeking feedback with a view to changing the product before launch. Adding pitchbend and modulation wheels would require the left cheekblock to be remodelled, and possibly even widened.then the board wouldn't be symmetrical, so you'd need to widen the right cheekblock also.then new top covers would need to be machined etc. In the six or so years that I have worked for Kawai, I am not aware of a product that has seen such a considerable hardware revision after a board had been launched.
