CP 60-70-80's

[William Benjamin]

I tuned the CP pianos many years on stage.  It was great to use earphones
and block out the noise of the stage crew.  Also with a graphic equalizer,
they can produce good sound without feedback.

 

William

 

 

 

 

PIANO BOUTIQUE

William Benjamin

Piano Tuner Extraordinaire

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The tuner alone,

preserves the tone.

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Joseph Garrett
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:26 PM
To: pianotech
Subject: CP 60-70-80's

 

Ron said: "They ARE cool, they WERE an excellent answer to a need for 

portability, but they always WERE and still ARE nasty sounding 

things, without getting into any emotional issues of acoustic 

piano purity. They're untunable and unvoicable. That's what 

*I* think technicians have against them."

 

Ron,

I would disagree on the point of "untuneable". They can be tuned, but they
won't fall into our little tuning "box" that we are comfortable with. The
scales are actually well thought out and most of the harmonics do a good job
of coinciding. The big issue is that they are better tuned with an ETD than
by ear IMO   (darn puter keeps doing weird things at this point  caps goes
haywire  perhaps the puter doesn"t like what i"m writing   go figger)
As for voicing, there some small voicing capabilities, but that was intended
to be compensated for with the amplifier EQ.

As for how they sound. Years ago, Del and I experimented with a Baldwin
"electric" dissaster thingee. I dragged my big Bass amp in, (high quality
thingee), and we hooked it up. That POS actually sounded good through a good
amp! Another go figger.<G> I think the same applies to the CP thingees. A
high quality amp will make them sound better than they have a right to, IMO.

Just my experience with these.

Best Regards,

 

Joseph Garrett, R.P.T.

Captain, Tool Police

Squares R I

 

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