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CFX

PTG National Convention

September 6, 2011 by Eric

I enjoyed a couple of days in Kansas City this summer at the PTG National. These annual events are a piano nerds dream, with classes, presentations and exhibits about all aspects of pianos with a focus on technology (build, repair, regulate).  This was the first national convention in many years where I attended as a […]

Filed Under: HEP Guy, Piano Technology Tagged With: CFX, piano technology, PTG

Maybe the Times are a-changing…

February 1, 2011 by Eric

Frederic Chiu played the new Yamaha CFX concert grand in a well received recital at the Metropolitian Museum of Art in New York. The extremely positive review in the New York Times also featured something that has been very rare in the past, a photo that included the name of a non-New York based piano […]

Filed Under: HEP Guy, Performance Tagged With: CFX, classical music, Yamaha

2010 NAMM part 1 – Overview

January 24, 2010 by Eric

NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) is the big musical instrument industry trade show. Technically it’s held twice a year, but the big show is every January in Anaheim, California. Anybody and everybody connected with the musical products industry shows and attends NAMM. This includes pianos of all price points, drums, brass and wind instruments, […]

Filed Under: HEP Guy, The piano world Tagged With: Bosendorfer, CFX, NAMM, 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

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