CP 60-70-80's

[Avery]

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.
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>William
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>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
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>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."
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>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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