I have a CVP-207 with sticky keys. I’ve seen various posts on the Web that suggest this is due to a faulty keybed design from the factory. I’ve also read that replacing the affected keys is only a band-aid and that the issue will return. It seems the only cure is to replace the keybed. For a while Yamaha was offering replacements, but that program stopped years ago (this instrument was made circa 2001). Any idea where I could find a new keybed…other than Yamaha? Are there other keybeds that are compatible?
You won’t find a keybed other that that manufactured by Yamaha. The keys stick when a crack develops at the back end of the key, where it clips onto the keybed chassis. So replacing any sticky keys with new ones should solve the issue (at least with those specific keys). Replacing the whole keybed will give you 88 new keys, but it’s expensive. Either way, you’ll be getting keys that are more durable than the originals.
It’s curious that the D and E notes seem to be far more vulnerable to this cracking!
Is that the magic of the new keybed that Yamaha offered - thicker keys? Are the replacement keys of the thicker kind? And do you think replaced keys would last?
I don’t think they are thicker, but maybe a stronger compound - but I’m just guessing on that. But they are much more durable than the originals.
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My keyboard started messing up the week after I bought it. I bought it brand new when they came out years ago. A Yamaha rep from Toronto (4 hours north of me) ended up coming 3 times with new keyboard beds and would have probably came the 4th time but I didn’t call them I just got used to not hitting certain keys.
My new issue is from it sitting all these years. First it was a crackling sound when I would turn the volume dial then I spray the electronic cleaner and it was fine again …
…for two minutes and then …no sound . Everything was still lit up and looked normal just no sound.
Now don’t I just change the potentiometer and a power amplifier?
I’m going to make a post of my own if someone misses this one but answer here if you can
B.A
change volume pot…this is typical