Yamaha CP70

[Don]

Hi Les,

Nope, not a grand child. Yamaha doesn't make them any more.

At 06:53 PM 5/20/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>I tuned some "electric grand" by Yamaha which looked to be twenty years old
>or some such, and it was a ghastly untuneable little thing. Inharmonicity
>was so horrible it was virtually untuneable.  Is this just the grandchild of
>same?
>thanks
>les bartlett 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of Farrell
>Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 5:48 PM
>To: Pianotech List
>Subject: Re: Yamaha CP70
>
>My experience with these nifty little electric pianos parallels yours
>exactly Dave. SAT works for plain strings and make bass least bad by ear. I
>didn't have an amp available when I did one - fortunately it was in a guy's
>house and it was quiet.
>
>At least you can pack this one up and get it to high ground when the water
>comes! (Handy for New Orleans......)
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>> My last stage experience, several years ago for Frankie Beverly, was 
>> that you could not depend on an ETD for the bass, you just had to find 
>> the spot that sounded the least bad. I tried one time with an 
>> accutuner and it was OK in the plain wire but the wound strings did not
>sound right at all.
>> Tests can be hard to hear depending how they have it amped, if its 
>> running through a monitor you may have to move things around for best 
>> audio. Any one need a set of bass strings for  CP70B? I had someone 
>> ask for a set and then leave town, lesson: get the $$$$ up front.
>>
>> -Dave
>> New Orleans
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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