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TUNING THE KEYBOARD

Although your Concertmate 970 never goes out of tune, it does let you adjust its pitch to match other instruments or musical recordings.

Note: You cannot tune the keyboard while the juke box mode is turned on.

1.Press and hold SOUND, then press and release JUKE BOX. The display shows the current pitch setting.

0

1

2

3

4

SOUND

 

 

 

 

 

MELODY

 

 

 

 

 

ON/OFF

5

6

7

8

9

RHYTHM

Note: The number on the display is the number of “cents” to which the keyboard is currently tuned, compared to its default pitch. A cent is the measurement that rep- resents the acoustical interval between two tones. 1200 cents equal 1 octave.

2.Within 5 seconds, repeatedly press TRANSPOSE/TUNE s or t to raise or lower the keyboard's pitch. Each time you press the key, the number on the display increases or decreases by 1 (cent).

VOLUME SYNCHRO/ START/ TEMPO

FILL-IN STOP

TRANSPOSE/TU

Notes:

You can tune the Concertmate 970 to within ±50 cents (101 lev- els) of its default pitch.

You can use the number keypad to raise the pitch by entering the desired cent value.

To reset the keyboard to its default pitch, press both TRANSPOSE/ TUNE s and t at the same time. 00 (cents) appears on the display.

The Concertmate 970 automati- cally resets the tuning pitch to the default value of 00 (cents) each time you turn off the keyboard or play the juke box tunes.

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Panasonic 970 owner manual Tuning the Keyboard