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You're wrong... those keys have LOTS of motion, according to this demonstration:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39zrqc

The traditional fallboard design of a grand is pretty much made to catch ANYTHING narrow/thin enough that falls off the front of the piano, especially pencils/pens and the like. What's more, the fallboard normally has a curved shape that sends objects as far back into the action as possible

Just look at the size of the gap when the fallboard is up:





IMO, this comes down to one of those time-honored tradition vs. change arguments. Soft fall fallboard? Poo, I never seen no kid smash his fingers, so this is useless. Soft fall lid? No one in my family ever accidentally dropped the 80lb lid onto the rim, so it's not a problem. A fallboard design that doesn't suck in pencils and pens? But how else will the piano feed?

you would think all AP makers would make it easier to remove the fallboard, but my AP requires removing the key slip and cheek blocks first. Found papers, pencils, ruler in there after a decade of not checking

probably a good reason to have a regular tune anyway. maybe that's what makers are expecting in terms of regular maintenance!

Ah yes, I remember seeing that on Steinways before. The NV-10 (and a lot of other grands) just let you lift the fallboard straight out.

Reminds me how I decided to “fix” the potentially falling fallboard on my N1X and I didn’t know I could just lift and pull it, and instead I disassembled almost the entire piano 🤣

Nice! What mapping did you come up with?

I skimmed the Yamaha N1X manual for inspiration, but wow, I didn't find anything remotely usable there. To be fair, I suppose it's because primary functions are on the dedicated panel and they use the keyboard for tweaking or more advanced options. Menu digging isn't so terribly worse in that light.

I suppose it's pretty nice that we can come up with whatever custom scheme works the best, based on individual taste, and this can evolve over time.

It would have been nice if the soft/sostenuto pedals were continuous just like the sustain pedal... then I would have mapped them to... pitch bend!

Sure it will! I really like this toy.

Oh no, actually I made the decision after I tried the N1X. Although the N1X is a wonderful instrument, the NV10 made a better impression to me. Again, it is personal. I know that there are many who prefer the N1X.

Nice try, frosas!

A clever deflection by pretending not to understand the question; a common tactic employed to avoid implication.

I will then proceed to reframe my question:

Did you or did you not prefer the N1X over the N2?



I have no further questions!

Frosas takes the fifth

It's not set in stone yet, but I do roughly the same thing as you. Some presets on the middle keys (harpsichords and historical piano's), with the Ruckers II registers where they've always been. I'm still jacking around with it.


You wouldn't! (If I remember correctly, the MP7 could do it; that thing could do almost any effect on any sound.)

Are you sure this is a good strategy, EPW, not allowing your client to testify?

This will not play well with the jury, so as a colleague I suggest you reconsider having frosas take the fifth!


It’s a simple -yes or no- question:

Is the N1X hands-down better than the N2?

** some voices are heard from the observing audience **

Yes!

** voices grow in number **

(Resounding) Yes!

** people stand up and are now shouting approvals **



** Judge calls courtroom to order, and asks the defense to stick to the case at hand. **

I rest my case!

Yes of course the N1X is better than N2! No doubt about that.

Hallelujah!

Finally, a former N2 owner admits it: the N1X is better than the N2!

If nothing else comes true from my bucket list, I will still die a happy man knowing that I was right all along.

And about you, frosas, I commend you on your bravery to finally come around the bend to tell the truth. I apologize if my line of questioning seemed a bit aggressive, but as my deceased grandpa always said to me:

“Pete, you’ll never get around the bend by being passive; you must take that bend by force if needed, or you will spend the rest of your life wondering what lurked around the bend”.

No worries Pete actually I enjoy these posts! :-)

As soon as Pete14 makes a serious post anywhere on PianoWorld, I'll probably order a steak and wine to celebrate it

If this happens I'll probably keel over and die.

I feel sorry for Pete14.
For years and years he was saving to buy his absolute dream piano, the Yamaha AvantGrand N2. Finally he had the money and was about to order his most wanted instrument, when disaster struck.

His wife left him for his piano tuner. And not only that, she kept the house they both lived in, all the saved money, and poor Pete14 had to settle in a van down by the river. That shattered his dreams completely. No wife, no money, not even the space for an AvantGrand N2, if he had the money.

So poor fellow Pete14 bought a Yamaha P 515. Not a bad piano of course but compared to the top notch AvantGrand N2, nothing but a toy piano.

From that moment on a pretty dark aspect of his personality surfaced. Each time someone on Piano World talked about the N2 and praised their beloved instruments, Pete14 became overwhelmed with anger and jealousy, and felt compelled to start criticizing the N2 on any occasion. “It was a ten-year old lemon!”. He raved at Yamaha and even called out for a boycott of the instrument. Then he even started to put pressure on former owners of the N2 to talk negative about their instrument. It’s almost pathetic.

But that’s life. It has winners and losers. In the mean time I enjoy playing my Yamaha AvantGrand N2 every day. Excellent instrument!
But I do feel sorry for Pete14.