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CFIIIS

Saying Goodbye

April 3, 2012 by Eric

I said goodbye to a friend recently. While with Yamaha in the 90’s I purchased a Yamaha concert grand…a CFIII 51GX to be precise. GX designates an experimental model and 51 designates the series. The 51 was a design experiment that incorporated a number of design features of a popular concert grand made by a […]

Filed Under: Fixing my piano, HEP Guy Tagged With: CFIIIS, Yamaha

2010 NAMM part 3 Yamaha CFX

January 24, 2010 by Eric

Yamaha has had a high end “craft built” line for a number of years and has been a very serious builder of concert pianos for decades. The concert grand, the CFIII (CF3) has undergone a number of iterations and experiments, resulting in the model CFIIIS that has been the flagship for the last 8 years […]

Filed Under: HEP Guy, The piano world Tagged With: CFIIIS, CFX, NAMM, S-Series, Yamaha

Newport Music Festival – Greatest Music Festival in the world

May 11, 2009 by Eric

I’m a huge fan of the festival, having first gone in 1980. It’s the classical music festival, held inside the mansions in Newport RI. It is a treasure of the music world due to it’s wonderful, unique programming and the supremely high level of the playing and players. Of course, it’s mostly due to Dr. […]

Filed Under: HEP Guy, Performance, Ramblings Tagged With: CFIIIS, Fiorentino, Newport Festival, Tomsic

What is the Yamaha S Series?

February 7, 2009 by Eric

In a nutshell, the S series are Yamaha’s concert level, hand made pianos. Made in a separate factory, these 3 models, the S4 (191 cn, 6’3″)  , S6 (212m, 6’11”) and CFIIIS  (275cm, 9′) (pronounced C F three S)  are made using techniques that would be familiar in any high end piano factory. Lots of […]

Filed Under: Bosendorfer, HEP Guy, The piano world Tagged With: CFIIIS, S-Series, Yamaha

Now I know how people got sucked in by Madoff

February 6, 2009 by Eric

I should have known better, but I got screwed by a piano rebuilder in Yonkers. He came recommended by a friend who should know. Originally I just needed my piano restrung, a pretty straight ahead job if you’re a restringer so made sense to have it done. Long story short, the piano ended up in […]

Filed Under: Fixing my piano, HEP Guy Tagged With: CFIIIS, repair

Nice piano!

November 3, 2008 by Eric

I’m in Charleston SC right now (really great city!) and just heard Valentina Lisitsa play the Tchaikovsky 1 with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Valentina is a big Bosendorfer fan, and the feeling is mutual. But our bank of concert pianos can’t completely keep up with the vast range of her performances, and we don’t have a […]

Filed Under: Bosendorfer, HEP Guy, Performance, The piano world Tagged With: Bosendorfer, CFIIIS, classical music, Valentina Lesitsa, Yamaha

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