Pic of my CVP

[Andreas]

as some of you have already posted their CVP-Pic, here comes mine;)

[ClavinovaGuy]

Here's the scene of my crimes:

http://bradprestonmusic.com/Photos/Studio.jpg

[Andreas]

Hi Brad,
that´s indeed a fine homestudio. You have everything you need close together!:cool:

[wally]

Originally posted by ClavinovaGuy
Here's the scene of my crimes:

http://bradprestonmusic.com/Photos/Studio.jpg

So what drives the monitor? I don't see a keyboard.

[Andreas]

OK, in addition to my digital setup, I´ll show you here my "unplugged" setup:
Yamaha P121 NT Upright Piano
Selmer III Altosax
GrandPrix Sopranosax S-200S silver sandfinish
;)

[Carlitin]

Originally posted by wally
So what drives the monitor? I don't see a keyboard.

Wally : is a good idea if the CVP user put ther pic in the page, this is my CVP-207 Carlitin: :D

[ClavinovaGuy]

Originally posted by wally
So what drives the monitor? I don't see a keyboard.

I have a wireless keyboard that I can just set on my lap - it has the little eraser-head mouse thingamabob built-in. The PC is in the rack - I had it built in a home-theater style case.

Cool-looking setups, everybody! :cool:

[jjm542]

Nice idea to post pictures of instruments and music rooms! Here's my CVP900 in my study. You can see the bookshelf speakers and amplifier under the piano - it greatly improves the sound.

I got the CVP because we have a tiny house that wouldn't take an acoustic. We have now built a new house (weekends for now, permanent eventually) that had more room so it has an acoustic. I'll post a picture of that separately.
jim

[jjm542]

Here's the CVP900's big brother, a Mason and Hamlin 7' BB in African rosewood. My answer to the "acoustic vs. digital" debate is "both, if you can." It's wonderful to sit at a big acoustic piano like this, but I have a very hard time getting a harpsichord sound out of it!

[ClavinovaGuy]

That is a beautiful instrument, Jim! One thing I have noticed over the past several years - I can't stand to play an acoustic that isn't in absolutely perfect tune :D

[jjm542]

Brad, could we call that "digital corruption?" :p

I figure once I get the CVP down here I'll just attach a tuning wrench to the BB and tune it to the CVP every day!

Among the many other virtues of the digital, it has a volume control! The BB's room is 10x15x10 with finished concrete floors. I'm working on the acoustics, but right now I have foam stuffed under the soundboard and lower the shades when I play. Even then if I'm not careful I can knock paint off the walls. It does keep the mountain lions away though (we're in the country.)

How's tricks in my home state? I'm coming back this summer for my 45th HS reunion!

[ClavinovaGuy]

Hopefully we'll warm things up a bit before you get here, Jim. The winter has actually been relatively mild, but we don't let that kind of info out, as we don't want to spoil the mystique of the Frozen Tundra - LOL!

I'll bet that 7-footer makes some wonderful sounds - I'd be grinning from ear to ear, keeping those mountain lions away ;-)

[Andreas]

Hi Jim,
your Mason and Hamlin looks absolutly fantastic! I would like to have a grandpiano too, but our appartment hasn´t got enough room for it.
And you´re exactly of the same opinion as I:
that no digital piano can beat a real acoustic piano. For classical pianomusic I play and train with my Yamaha upright (see above).

Hi Brad:
To keep the piano in tune I have got an airwasher(or how do you say for it in english?), that´s really great. After having tuned the Upright two times in the first half year (it was brandnew from the Kemble-factory in England, where the Yamaha P-series is built) it now stays tuned with the help of this humidifyer who keeps the airhumidity of my room constantly at 50%.

But if I want to play epiano, synth or some other instrument with a band by night I sit down on my Clavinova and play until midnight or later, which wouldn´t work with the upright because I don´t have a band at home and because of our neighbours...

With the saxes (see above) it is difficult to train every day, because during daytime I have to work and in the evening or night the neighbours aren´t keen to hear my training. So I only can train with the saxes during daytime, when I work at home and not in my office...
;)

[wally]

Guys, thanks so much for letting us peek into your homes! :p It's great visiting with each of you this way!! :D

[Andreas]

from time to time I don´t play piano, I play my sax...:)

[dbjorck]

Hi!

About acoustic vs digital;

I've had a great rosewood baby grand for 15 years that has served me very well indeed.
http://www.sitecenter.dk/dbjorck/apartmentpictures/view_alone.nhtml?profile=apartmentpictures&UID=10054

However it was recently (yet again) in need of a full mechanical overhaul, all the felt needs replacing, etc. This costs a lot. In fact more than what I can sell it for.

That together with the yearly tuning costs made me decide to buy the 309GP. When you consider the costs associated with the acoustic, it actually pays for itself quite quickly.

So I'm selling my old friend, though with a sad heart. Contrary to a previous point of view in this thread, I don't see the need to have both. Before, when I only had the acoustic, I would get used to the drifts in pitch, but now when I have the digital it only sounds awful. And I actually find the keyboard action on the 309GP superior. In fact since I got it, my technique has improved considerably, and those that listen also say it sounds much better.

Only thing is, I'm finding it difficult to find buyers to my old friend. Could it be that others are thinking the same way and going digital instead? Is digital winning?

Brgds

Danny

[Andreas]

I must say, that since 15 years I only had new Yamaha acoustic pianos, and with my new one, which came brandnew from the kemble-factory in England, where the Yamaha P-series is built, the tuning problem is solved by an airwasher, who keeps the airdumpness of my room near 50%. With this little extracost the P121NT upright keeps the tuning very well and I like it for classical Solopiano playing.:)
The CVP is great for Ensemble play and for all the other voices, but classical Solopiano on a welltuned Yamaha Acoustic can´t be beaten by my CVP, although it has the best Grandpianovoice on the market:D

[sigerico]

I also think it's a nice idea to post photos of our CVP and rooms, so I want to show you them. I have posted a picture from my CVP 307 in the thread http://www.cvpug.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=989.

Now I want to show you my Harmonium. It´s a bit old, but stills works.