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Why does a digital piano need stretched tuning?
The reason is that digital piano has the same inharmonicity as real one. If the digital simulation is based on samples from a real piano, it will inherit the inharmonicity from the sampled instrument. ...
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Why is this part on my digital piano making a clicking/popping noise?
They're the actual key-press sensors.
From what I recall [I'm not a pro repairer but I've had a lot of Yamahas in bits over the years, I used to work for them] it's mounted as one single strip. I ...
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Yamaha Digital Piano YDP-145: Play MIDI files on piano using built-in voices?
The Yamaha page for the YDP-145 lists several manuals associated with this instrument.
The third manual down the list:
YDP-165_YDP-145_YDP-S55_YDP-S35_MIDI Reference
... explains how to send and ...
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Can a digital piano be dismantled to be used as a portable keyboard?
The Nux WK520 is a furniture style piano. That will create a few issues for you. First it weighs about 48kg (over 100 lbs) and most of that weight is in the casing of the piano so you will be dealing ...
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Why is this part on my digital piano making a clicking/popping noise?
Those are, as @Tetsujin points out, the keypress sensors. The rubber dome collapses as you press the associated key, and closes an electrical circuit underneath. When the dome is compressed, its ...
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KD-160 Kohler piano audio outputs not working
My first thoughts were to use a cheap headset, that would still allow everything else to be heard, maybe only using one earpiece. Plugged into the headphone outlet.
The second would involve a monitor ...
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How to hear chord progression
Answers to this question generally involve mentioning the things that one should do to identify chord progressions like listen for bass notes, chord qualities, typical chord progressions and patterns ...
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Can a digital piano be dismantled to be used as a portable keyboard?
It depends on how it's constructed.
Take the legs off mine & you still wouldn't want to carry it on your own, it's made of thick wood, not plastic. It also has the speakers suspended from the ...
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Is it an issue if the white and black keys are weighted differently?
When I play music at the time with the black keys, I move my hand deeper on the keyboard, playing both black keys and the white keys at about the same length. I feel both black keys and white keys are ...
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How to decide between clavinova models from different years?
Update: There were a few years around 2000 (not sure which) when Yamaha's sound priorities differed from mine. However, things have been relatively straightforward with the 5X5, 6X5 and 7X5 series, ...
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Is it OK to use the transpose function of a piano like guitar players use a capo?
Proceed with extreme caution! I once relied on this technique for performance with my middle-school (age 11-14 ish) students. I recall an occasion when I had set the keyboard down a third to ...
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Is it OK to use the transpose function of a piano like guitar players use a capo?
If you have absolute (‘perfect’) pitch, then I suspect you're highly unlikely to be able to use a transpose function successfully.
In fact, I had trouble on the couple of occasions I've tried to use ...
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