Cristofori/Lyrica CRG48 4'8" Grand Piano with PianoDisc CFX228 Player System - Cristofori

Cristofori/Lyrica CRG48 4'8" Grand Piano
Your Choice for Value
• Created in partnership by the two largest, most respected piano retailers in America
• Produced in one of the world’s most technologically advanced piano factories
• Factory-direct pricing makes it the best piano value in the USA

Your Choice for Tone
• All Siberian spruce soundboard for superior tone quality
• Solid copper windings on all bass strings for singing tone
• Solid maple bridges for best transmission of sound, capped for strength
• Single felted hammer made of highest quality Japanese felt

Your Choice for Touch
• Hardrock maple action parts for strength
• Extruded aluminum action rail and five action hangers for stability

Your Choice for Quality
• Multi-laminated maple/birch rims for strength and superior tone projection
• Spruce beams and laminated maple keybed for structural rigidity
• Quarter-sawn, hard rock maple pinblock for superior gripping power
• Japanese and Korean machinery for precision manufacturing

Your Choice for Beauty
• Beautifully crafted cabinet available in Ebony Polish

PianoDisc CFX228 Player System
This virtual reality player system offers many unique and exciting features in one powerful package. In solo performances or accompanied by a full symphony orchestra, PianoDisc's 228CFX brings your piano to life!

Flexibility is a key element of the 228CFX. With it your piano can play via 3.5" floppy disks, specially-formatted PianoCDs or even access MX (Music Expansion) or MX Platinum, PianoDisc's optional flash memory storage systems. The 228CFX has an all-in-one control unit that uses state-of-the-art technology to provide unparalleled piano performances.

SilentDrive is an important, built-in feature of all PianoDisc systems. SilentDrive ensures that PianoDisc systems play with life-like expression, and sound remarkable even at the whisper-soft volume levels. It allows precise control of the piano's keys and pedals for greater fidelity, expression and low-volume control. SilentDrive consists of four boards: one CPU (central processing unit) and three custom ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) chip-driven boards. The boards communicate using a type of serial information link that runs faster than MIDI.

SilentDrive Plus is the latest enhancement to this technology. It is available as an update. Contact your local PianoDisc dealer or PianoDisc directly to obtain this easy to install update.

Options for the 228CFX

Music Expansion (MX) Platinum uses flash technology to store your music (solo and live orchestrated performances) safely and conveniently in your 228CFX system. MX Platinum comes pre-loaded with over 35 HOURS OF FREE MUSIC: 25 hours of solo piano and 10 hours that are fully-orchestrated.

Music Expansion( MX) Pre-loaded with 25 hours of free music (solo piano performances), MX uses flash technology to store your music safely and conveniently in your PianoDisc system. With MX, you can organize your music into 10 musical categories and 12 different libraries for the most convenient playback possible.

SymphonyPro When you add the SymphonyPro built-in sound module to your PianoDisc system you'll bring a whole orchestra of instrumental sounds to your piano. You'll enjoy realistic performances of woodwinds, strings, brass, drums and a host of other instruments accompanying your piano.

TFT MIDI Record This option lets you record your piano performances via PianoDisc's patented TFT (Touch Film Technology), an exclusive system that faithfully captures every nuance of an original performance. The system consists of a sensor strip which is installed, very unobtrusively, beneath the key bed of your piano. When the pianist strikes a key, this sensor strip captures every element of his touch, including force, speed and duration. With 127 levels of individual expression, each note that's played is faithfully recorded.

PianoMute This option allows you to play your piano without making a sound. By pulling a lever, a mute rail is activated which comes between the piano's hammers and its strings. When used in conjunction with the QuietTime GT option (see under Products), you can then hear your piano playing digitally, through headphones, or aloud over stereo speakers.

Powered Speakers These high performance audio speakers bring the sound of orchestrated accompaniment to life. Each amplified speaker (usually bought as a pair) is carefully mounted under your piano, to provide a perfectly balanced musical accompaniment to your piano's live performance.

PianoAmp (Microphone Pickup) Designed to “mike” an acoustic piano, the pickup attaches to the soundboard of the piano, and connects to an audio input on the 228CFX. The acoustic piano and orchestrated accompaniment will be heard anywhere there are speakers.

CD Wireless This system allows you to connect your own CD changer to the 228CFX system with no need for external wiring.