Chris Stainton

For the May 2015 issue of "Yamaha Music Magazine", Chris Stainton stated in a written interview, that he used a Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano, a Yamaha CP-1 electric keyboard as well as a Yamaha P250 keyboard: "I've had a lot of Yamaha keyboards over the years. I had a Yamaha organ in the '70s. And I had a CP70 electric grand piano. Before the CP1, I played a P250, which I thought was fantastic. But the CP1 tops even that. It truly feels like a piano."

Chris Stainton used a Yamaha CP-300 88-Key Stage Electric Piano for his performance with British rock musician Eric Clapton on "Later with Jools Holland" on November 2, 2010. This performance was broadcasted on the BBC television network and featured Stainton playing alongside Jools Holland.

For the live performance with Eric Clapton at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2016, Chris Stainton used the Yamaha CP-1 88-Key Electric Stage Piano for the keyboard solo in the song "Cocaine". Both an audio as well as a video recording of the concert entitled "Slowhand: Live at 70" capture Stainton's solo with the keyboard.

As a second, side electric keyboard, Chris Stainton used the Yahama Motif XS6 61-key electric synthesizer workstation for the performance with Eric Clapton at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival at Chicago's Toyota Park stadium.

At the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007, Stainton kept the Kurzweil PC3LE8 synthesizer workstation as a spare keyboard. The electric piano can be seen during his keyboard solo on the live track "Little Queen of Spades" he performed along with Eric Clapton, Doyle Bramhall II and Derek Trucks at the Toyota Park stadium in Chicago.

For the May 2015 issue of "Yamaha Music Magazine", Chris Stainton stated in a written interview, that he used a Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano, a Yamaha CP-1 electric keyboard as well as a Yamaha P250 keyboard: "I've had a lot of Yamaha keyboards over the years. I had a Yamaha organ in the '70s. And I had a CP70 electric grand piano. Before the CP1, I played a P250, which I thought was fantastic. But the CP1 tops even that. It truly feels like a piano."