And It Fits (Just)...

Believe it or not, I was able to get that CP80B in to my office. Had to take out a lot of shit, but it was shit I obviously needed in here less than a CP80B.

For the morbidly curious, I’ve tuned the center three octaves so far. The entire piano, aside from being fairly out of tune with itself, was a half step flat, so it’s a pretty tedious process. I’m going to end up doing it twice, because being so flat, tuning up the outside is going to drag the middle down pretty drastically, and I don’t know enough about piano tuning to actually preempt this event. Luckily, there are only two strings per note where a “real” piano would have three, so that’s a bit of a time saver. It also makes it really easy to adjust the richness of the individual notes. Once all is said and done, I’m tuning one of the strings about two beats per second flat against the first, which should give a nice meaty chorusing.

Probably.

Anyhow, this bad boy didn’t come with a power supply, so I had to whittle one; luckily, they can run off a simple wall wart, so it’s not that hard a chore. It sounds fantastical good, though, and I’m pretty pleased to have it.