Justin Havu Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Played our church's CP300 for a Wednesday night service, and the A above middle C has a bit more resistance to it then the other keys, it almost feels like it's sticking on something. Going to see if I can investigate the issue this afternoon. Quote Hardware Yamaha DX7, PSR-530, MX61/Korg Karma/Ensoniq ESQ-1/Roland VR-760/Hydrasynth Deluxe/ Behringer DeepMind12, Model D, Odyssey, 2600/Arturia Keylab MKII 61 Software Studio One/V Collection 9/Korg Collection 5/Cherry Audio/UVI SonicPass/EW Composer Cloud/Omnisphere, Stylus RMX, Trilian/IK Total Studio 3.5 MAX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinny Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Look straight on at it at key level. Is the key tilted to the left or right? I remember a common problem with Yamaha keys where the plastic near the pivot point of the key would fail, and it would tilt one way, causing it to rub on the adjacent key. Used to happen all the time to my church"s Clavinova. Quote Stuff and things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synthizen2 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Look straight on at it at key level. Is the key tilted to the left or right? I remember a common problem with Yamaha keys where the plastic near the pivot point of the key would fail, and it would tilt one way, causing it to rub on the adjacent key. Used to happen all the time to my church"s Clavinova. Yes... this is exactly what happened to a Clavinova CLP-350 that I still own but no longer use (a few keys now trigger at full velocity, and I never bothered to fix that). But back when it was working, I had to do the above broken-pivot-point repair by simply replacing the offending key. Quote Kurzweil PC3, Yamaha MOX8, Alesis Ion, Kawai K3M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr -G- Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Same thing happened to me with a P80 piano. If you look in the net, somebody suggested a fix by inserting/embedding a hot pin in the plastic to recreate the pivot point at the end of the key and make it stand vertically. That might work but instead of experimenting I just ordered a new key from Yamaha and replaced it myself. Just note that keys have a note name and number (D 110 in my case). They asked me that when I ordered it (it is printed/engraved on the top and on the bottom, towards the pivot end). I do not know if all the same-note keys are interchangeable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Havu Posted January 6, 2022 Author Share Posted January 6, 2022 Thanks, all! The key itself was in perfect shape. There was a ton of nasty white gunk on top of the hammer underneath where the key sits. Cleaned it, and she's good to go. Quote Hardware Yamaha DX7, PSR-530, MX61/Korg Karma/Ensoniq ESQ-1/Roland VR-760/Hydrasynth Deluxe/ Behringer DeepMind12, Model D, Odyssey, 2600/Arturia Keylab MKII 61 Software Studio One/V Collection 9/Korg Collection 5/Cherry Audio/UVI SonicPass/EW Composer Cloud/Omnisphere, Stylus RMX, Trilian/IK Total Studio 3.5 MAX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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