/ The Morning News/Sep. 01, 2022 Guangzhou -- The black velvet curtain is like a boundless river of stars scattered by the Milky Way. In late summer and early autumn, the studio of Shanghai Broadcasting Tower is surrounded by piano sounds, sometimes loud and passionate and sometimes murmuring.
On August 28, Yamaha's new CFX for concert grade grand pianos was released.
Since its birth in 1967, after decades of accumulation of manufacturing experience and continuous improvement of material technology, as the flagship of CF series, CFX is a worthy "strength responsibility" of Yamaha, representing the highest level of Yamaha piano products.
Amaki Matsuki, executive director and director of piano business of Yamaha Co., LTD., said in his speech that since the birth of the first grand piano in 1902, Yamaha has continued to adhere to the "high quality" and "artistic" manufacturing concept, which has been widely loved and recognized by professionals. Hirotaro Terada, Director of Piano Sales Department of Yamaha (China) Company, delivered a speech on the scene, revealing that 2022CFX takes "integrated" as the design concept, which makes the back frame and cast iron plate that support the sound board vibration fit closely, so as to eliminate the gap between the transmission of sound wave and vibration as far as possible, so that the players' emotions can be shown to the maximum extent on the 2022 new CFX. So that the player and the piano become one.
In the case of grand pianos, what is the best and most resonant timbre? What kind of material and construction can be used to make the piano produce the widely recognized good sound?
For this problem, many piano masters have already given a conclusion. For a century-old brand like Yamaha, the success it has achieved in terms of production technology, core components, sales quantity, coverage area and brand recognition is enough to confirm the efforts and wisdom it has made in the use of high-quality materials and the configuration of process structure.
Many famous pianists in the world have used Yamaha CFX nine-foot piano in performances or competitions. CFX can not be ignored in international piano competitions such as Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Hamamatsu. In 2010, Yamaha concert Grand Piano CFX was released. In the 16th Chopin International Piano Competition, Russian contestant Yuliana Aftiyeva had been choosing CFX since the preliminary competition, and finally won all the way. In 2015, in Chopin International Piano Competition, one of the world's three famous piano competitions, 36 out of 78 participants chose Yamaha CFX, making CFX the piano with the highest usage rate in the first round competition. In 2018, in the Hainan branch venue of CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the pianist Maxim dressed in black dress performed the New Silk Road with Yamaha CFX, which was noble and mysterious, stirring the hearts of hundreds of millions of viewers.Now, the newly released Yamaha concert grand piano CFX, through the 12 years of dedicated research by many craftsmen of Yamaha "special instrument Workshop", has perfected and improved the design in the back frame and back column, cast iron plate, soundboard, string code, string hammer, string machine, score board and other areas.
Combined with Yamaha's unique A.R.E technology, the new CFX is more sensitive to touch and more interactive, with deeper bass and more effective chord length in the alto range, allowing each note to be more subtle and in place, creating an extraordinary sound effect and richness.
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< P > The new CFX is also the first time to adopt "hollow-out music platform" as a standard specification. Wu Xiao, associate professor and director of piano discipline in the Middle School Affiliated to Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, likes the design of the new music platform very much, thinking that its "shape is classical yet modern". The design of the number and position of openings also takes the acoustic conduction effect into full consideration. "It allows the sound to come through."
