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Except for the bass strings!!!! :-D Been there, fought that! <br><br>
Avery <br><br>
At 02:28 PM 9/13/2006, you wrote:<br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color="#000080">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.<br>
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William<br>
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PIANO BOUTIQUE<br>
William Benjamin<br>
Piano Tuner Extraordinaire<br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color="#000080">The tuner
alone,<br>
preserves the tone.<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size=2><b>From:</b> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joseph
Garrett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> pianotech<br>
<b>Subject:</b> CP 60-70-80's<br>
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</font><font face="MS Sans Serif, Geneva" size=2>Ron said:
"</font><font face="MS Sans Serif, Geneva">They ARE cool, they WERE
an excellent answer to a need for <br>
portability, but they always WERE and still ARE nasty sounding <br>
things, without getting into any emotional issues of acoustic <br>
piano purity. They're untunable and unvoicable. That's what <br>
*I* think technicians have against them."<br>
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</font><font face="MS Sans Serif, Geneva">Ron,<br>
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)<br>
As for voicing, there some small voicing capabilities, but that was
intended to be compensated for with the amplifier EQ.<br>
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.<br>
Just my experience with these.<br>
Best Regards,<br>
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Joseph Garrett, R.P.T.<br>
Captain, Tool Police<br>
Squares R I<br>
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