The Yamaha CLP Piano is a range of digital pianos that are specifically designed to sound, feel, and function like a grand piano. The Yamaha clp is perfect for the home environment.
The Yamaha Clavinova range of digital pianos celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2008. This electric piano range has certainly proven itself over those years.
Who would have ever thought there would come a day when we could plug the piano into the power socket and have it producing the same sound as an acoustic piano? Digital pianos that would enable you to download from the internet and record your very own masterpieces as if you were in a recording studio.
The Clavinova has been declared the most successful range of digital pianos in the U.S. for the last 14 years. The Yamaha Clavinova has won MMR's "Dealer's Choice" Awards a dozen times. (The MMR awards are the results of voting by dealers of musical instruments throughout the U.S. for their choices of superb musical equipment, instruments, and the like.)
The Yamaha Clavinova range has been winning awards since 1991. Some of the awards have included "Home Digital Piano Line of the Year", "Digital Piano of the Year", and "Keyboard Line of the Year". There are in fact so many awards that the rest of this article could be dedicated to listing them.
There are two types of digital pianos in the Yamaha Clavinova range. One is the cvp and the other is the clp. This article is going to talk about the clp digital pianos. For further information on the Clavinova cvp's there is a separate article.
What is the difference between the Yamaha Clavinova clp and the cvp? Well, clp actually stands for "classical piano" and therein lies the main difference. The clp electric piano was always meant to more faithfully reproduce the sound and feel of the acoustic piano, with less instrumental voices and less technological gadgetry, but still retaining recording facilities. The Clavinova clp is designed to be the more basic range.
The lower cost Clavinova clp 220 has the graded hammer technology. The upper levels of the Clavinova clp series all feature the latest technology of the graded hammer effect 3 (GH3), to further replicate the playing feel of a grand piano. Courtesy of two new velocity sensors, the player of the piano now has the ability to repeatedly play the same note with perfect articulation, once only possible when playing a grand piano.
The Clavinova clp is designed to produce the authentic sound and feel of an acoustic piano. The authentic wood touch of the 88 keys, along with the weighted balancing allows for extremely expressive piano playing.
The Clavinova is just like an acoustic piano that you plug in, but with the added advantages of no tuning, ever, headphone socket, a volume switch, MIDI compatability, and instrumental voices to change the sound of your masterpiece. The Clavinova clp range is designed to be simple to use and easy on the eye.
The Yamaha Clavinova clp 280/270 models have sophisticated technology known as Instrumental Active Field Control (IAFC) that produces a richer sound environment by examining and adjusting to the acoustics of the room. These adjustments occur in real time through the rear speakers.
The Clavinova's voices all benefit from the Advanced Wave Memory technology of recording high quality musical instruments to produce authentic sounding voices. The clp 280/270/240 also have the Dynamic Stereo Sampling (DSS) which has recorded piano voices in varying volumes of soft to loud.
The more recent Clavinovas have benefited from an increased memory facility. The clp 280/270/240 have Stereo Sustain samples and Key-Off which replicate the resonances of the soundboard and strings, and the subtle sound of the releasing of keys very effectively mimicking the sound of a grand piano's damper pedal being pressed.
The Yamaha CLP Piano is a perfect choice for the pianist wanting to combine the very best of modern digital technology with the sound and feel of an acoustic piano.
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