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Post by drew571 on Apr 24, 2015 15:56:32 GMT -6
anyone know anyone willing to sell or of any currently listed? they pop up on ebay but not very often. around nashville would be great but not completely necessary. i'll be moving there in june.
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Post by keymod on Apr 24, 2015 16:31:54 GMT -6
They were a small upright, almost portable, with pickups inside, weren't they? I remember a lot of bands used those back in the 70s & early 80s. If those are the ones? Then the Yamaha CP70 came out...
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Post by drew571 on Apr 24, 2015 16:54:54 GMT -6
yeah. they had a pickup that had a humbucker style system that covered the length of the soundboard. unique sound. you could also mic them up and they sound good that way too.
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Post by jimwilliams on Apr 25, 2015 12:01:00 GMT -6
I used their pickup system back in the 1980's touring with Stevie Wonder. Instead of an upright, we transported one of his Yamaha grand pianos in a huge flight case.
The 7 or so pickups were mounted to the piano bracing above the strings back at Wonderland Studios in tour prep. Once set, they were left for the entire tour. It came with a small box that had the outputs. Those fed a Countryman DI box to the monitor and house consoles.
These pickups have about a 7k hz bandwidth, sort of like an electric guitar. That gave the piano an electric sound, not authentic for a full sized concert grand acoustic. Since the SPL's were so high on stage, micing the piano wouldn't work.
I ended up using a C-ducer piezo strip pickup. It was about 2~3 feet long and flexible. That was stuck under the piano directly on the sound board. That also fed the Countryman DI due to it's high input impedance. At the house console, the high pass filter was used and jacked up to around 2k hz or so. Then the acoustic like tops of the C-ducer was mixed in with the Helpinstill pickups. That gave the piano the full bandwidth the magnetic pickups lacked. It sounded great during the solo acoustic set.
Those pickups ought to be available used, they would be an alternative that gets that sound on any piano you choose.
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