Except for the bass strings!!!! :-D Been there, fought that! Avery At 02:28 PM 9/13/2006, you wrote: >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 ><http://www.pianoboutique.biz>www.pianoboutique.biz >The tuner alone, >preserves the tone. > > >---------- >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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060913/2f5ccf0b/attachment.html
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