Hello World!<\/p>\n
This blog was created to document my journey composing and producing music.\u00c2\u00a0 It will give insight to my music, mind, and the processes.\u00c2\u00a0 I am simultaneously starting a blog also on Blogger<\/a>, so feel free to follow on which ever platform suites you best because both blogs will have identical information.\u00c2\u00a0 The dual maintenance is also for testing purposes to see which blogging platform suites me best.\u00c2\u00a0 As I get closer to releasing my first major album, my website will be revised, and this blog may move to the website.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been away from music for too long.\u00c2\u00a0 The last time I completed a composition and recorded it was in 2006, which was a piece entitled eClipse<\/em>, composed for my girlfriend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday.<\/p>\n I have a wedding gig coming up where I will play solo piano, so I am trying to make myself prepare for that.\u00c2\u00a0 One of my real obstacles is that my electric piano has a constant crackling noise emitting from it when its turned on, and when notes are depressed, then the cracklings gets worse.\u00c2\u00a0 I have the wiring schematics of the piano, a Roland HP 1700; so I should be able to troubleshoot it.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been putting it off for about a year now.\u00c2\u00a0 At first I thought it was just the volume potentiometer, but after purchasing and spraying contact lubricant on the volume slider, nothing changed.<\/p>\n My next approach will be to look at the different audio inputs and outputs on the schematics and test them one by one to see if any of them is not putting out the crackling.\u00c2\u00a0 This should allow me to determine between which two connections is crackling is occurring.<\/p>\n Needless to say, the crackling makes practicing quite unappealing, not that most practicing most of my life was very appealing anyway (although now, I get to practice whatever I feel like).\u00c2\u00a0 So, I thought about where to get another piano for practicing.\u00c2\u00a0 I still have a grand piano at my parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 house, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like people listen to me practice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand someone is always home at my parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 house.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like driving that far just to practice.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a Yamaha P90<\/a> stage piano in storage, but not where to put it in my apartment.\u00c2\u00a0 Last week I browsed Facebook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Marketplace application because I wanted to begin researching how to sell things. \u00c2\u00a0Talk about an impulse buy: I started browsing categories and filters the listings down to Tulsa, and of the very few listings was a Yamaha CP-25, a vintage electric piano about as old as I am.\u00c2\u00a0 Money and space is tight, so I kicked the idea around with my girlfriend, and ultimately purchased it for $200.\u00c2\u00a0 I really like the sound because most of this keyboard is analog, and I frequently look for synth patches that sound similar to this keyboard.\u00c2\u00a0 So I thought, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why not just get the real thing?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s barely been played and word is they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re built like tanks, so now I have this not so small, but not too large, very heavy CP-25 taking up half of my dinky living room.\u00c2\u00a0 At least there is no crackling, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m surprised my modern Yamaha foot pedal doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trigger the sustain function correctly.\u00c2\u00a0 The CP-25\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s owner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manual states a Yamaha FC-4 came with the keyboard, but not only did I not get one with this purchase, I also can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figure out what model of Yamaha pedal I currently own.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to dig up receipts for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello World!
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