New Piano!

My Yamaha Clavinova CLP 340 came this morning and I’ve been having fun! It’s the first piano I’ve had that comes with a 97 page manual. So far I have been switching between playing pieces and trying out some of the technology built in. As with many electronic gadgets, it can help to read the manual that comes with it. I’m doing a combination of trial by error and consulting the manual to try out some of the features. There is a lot to learn. Many of the settings such as pedal effects can be adjusted. You can fine tune the pitch of the entire instrument, which is useful if you play along with CD’s. You can also experience various tunings with the Clavinova. Equal temperament is what has been used for the past 150 years or so, but “mean tone” , “Pythagorean” and other tuning systems can be programmed. This would be interesting for certain genres of music. I’m not going to mess around with that for awhile. I did change from grand piano to harpsichord—that’s fun. I would rather go play the piano now than blog, so I will leave my readers with a brief movie of me playing. Larry is still figuring out how to take them, so it is short.