Testpoint 4 gives me around 3.28VMeasure the voltage at testpoint (4). Expected voltage is +3.3 V.
Measure the voltage at both sides of R252 (leading to pin-1 of CN9).
See if you can locate L204. I cannot find it.
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I found Point L204 on the bottom Side and there is no resistor there?Are there any components on the bottom side of the board?
You can make a quick test with a piece of fine hook-up wire.
Jumper from testpoint (4) to pin-1 of CN9. For current protection, connect via a series resistor, about 100 to 1kΩ will do. What resistances do you have handy?
Keep fingers crossed that this quick test restores your sound.


Okay so C231 gives me 0L while C227 right next to it is 0.4736 MOhm with the range set to Auto(2MOhm).Holy s!
Hold your horses. This doesn't make much sense.
I cannot tell from the drawings. When you flip the board, where is L204 with respect to CN9?
If there is no component installed, does it look as if the component broke away from the board?
Can you find such component laying around inside the piano?
With the DMM, check to see if there is continuity from CN9 pin-1 to either side of the L204 solder pads.
Anyway, the prognosis is looking good. No +3.3V is flowing to CN9 pin-1 if L204 is missing.
You can try putting a 100 Ω resistor where L204 is supposed to be.
But first, check if C231 is shorted. If C231 was shorting, L204 would get hot and fall off the board.

Okay I will try that out. What abot C231, is it shorted? Should I Switch it out?Solder in either the 47R or 100R SMD whichever fits where the L204 should go.
Best of luck!


All right, can't wait for tomorrow. Thank you!R252 and R253 are resistors with zero ohms. Hence you are suppose to measure them as a short circuit.
We will get to the sound quality later tomorrow.
Okay so Pin-1 is 3V and pin-2 gets higher and lower between 0V and 3.3VIn the meantime, you can go over the previous measurements at CN9.
CN9 pin-1 should be at +3.3 V.
CN9 pin-2 should increase from 0 V to +3.3 V as you turn up the MASTER VOLUME.
Go back and look at the signals at R104 and R105 with the oscilloscope.
We are looking for signals that go between 0 V and +3.3 V to indicated that changing digital signal is being sent to the two digital-to-analog converters (DAC).

/MUTE gives me 3.28V on both sides so no issue there.Let's review what we have done and found out so far.
1) There was no +3.3D supply voltage reaching the MASTER VOLUME control potentiometer. This is fed via L204 which is missing from the circuit board (fallen off?). 47R resistor was installed instead of L204. IC101 MCU now receives proper analog volume control signal.
2) Digital audio signal now restored at R104 and R105.
We need to go back and examine the signals at the speaker power amp IC103 and the headphones DAC and HP AMP.
Confirm the voltages at /MUTE. See post #4.
With the oscilloscope, look for analog voltages at test points DAC-L and DAC-R while playing notes or demo and volume turned up.


Okay so something really strange happened.When you post screen shots from the oscilloscope, tell us the VOLT/DIV and TIME/DIV settings of the oscilloscope. We cannot see the settings on the photographs and videos.
Here are two sample screen shots of middle C on a piano. The oscilloscope is set to capture once and freeze. The first photo shows a single note from start to finish lasting 300 ms. In shows the amplitude envelope of the musical note. The oscilloscope time sweep is 100 ms/div.
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The second photo is taken with the oscilloscope set to 10 ms/div. Here you can see and measure the wave frequency.
I count 10 cycles in 38 ms or 3.8 ms per cycle. This translates to a frequency of 263 Hz which is close enough for middle C at a frequency of 262 Hz.
In both cases, the signal amplitude is about 1 division or 100 mV.