Yamaha CSP295 Satin Black Digital Piano

Yamaha Smart Pianos are designed to be used with a smartphone or tablet and the `Smart Pianist App`.

Once connected the CSP200 Series becomes a home entertainment system.

• 100`s of sheet music tuition books for serious practice
• 100`s of classic and classical sheet music piano pieces many with detailed orchestral arrangements
• The ability to play along with your own library of MP3 music and have it converted to chords/score
• You can plug a Mic in and use the onboard effects (eg reverb/delay)
• Record singing and piano together
• Loads of backing styles

Before you buy any other digital piano in this price bracket you should have a proper demonstration of the CSP series piano. It is first and foremost a quality digital piano but it offers so much more for the family. The greatest benefit has to be for the beginner / intermediate player but even an advanced player will like it

Please feel free to call in and try the CSP200 series, we'll show you around it, explain the app and how it might benefit you and then you leave to to have a play yourself.

Your current instrument might have a value to assist with the purchase of a CSP200 series. Let us know the make, model and condition and we'll get back to with a price.

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Yamaha CSP295 in Satin Black Features

This flagship model of the Clavinova CSP-200 Series is an upright-styled digital piano, with unique Stream Lights for playing fun and learning ease. It includes a realistically expressive 88-key GrandTouch counterweighted keyboard, as well as Yamaha CFX and BÖsendorfer Imperial grand piano sounds. Moreover, the free Yamaha Smart Pianist app provides intuitive operation of the instrument.

• Stream Lights
• Yamaha CFX and BÖsendorfer Imperial piano samples, Yamaha CFX and BÖsendorfer binaural sampling
• 919 Voices, 403 Songs and 525 Styles
• Audio to Score
• Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM)
• Grand Expression Modeling
• GrandTouch keyboard with counterweights, 88-key Linear Graded Hammers
• GP Response Damper Pedal
• (50 W + 50 W + 40 W) x 2 amplifiers
• Grand Acoustic Imaging
• (16 cm + 8 cm + 2.5 cm (dome) with Bidirectional Horn) x 2 speaker system, Spruce Cone Speaker
• Microphone connection
• Multi-track MIDI recording (SMF format 0)
• Audio Player/Recorder (File format: WAV, AAC)
• Built-in Bluetooth audio
• Wireless connection to the Smart Pianist app via Bluetooth MIDI

Standard Yamaha Warranty is 2 years which is pretty good. However Premium instruments are covered by an additional 3 years giving a total of 5 years warranty. You must remember to register within 6 months to qualify. You can do that here

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Grandtouch Keyboard - Yamaha CSP295PE

Yamaha's latest keyboard action features a broad dynamic range and faithful response to every nuance of touch that puts a wide expanse of tone-from delicate to bold-at the pianist's fingertips. The highly consistent grand piano hammers replicate the pleasing response felt when the hammers strike the strings, enabling precise control of the tone. Highly absorbent synthetic-ivory white keys and synthetic-ebony black keys prevent slipping even during extended play and feel just like those of a grand piano.

GrandTouch keyboard features wooden keys that showcase Yamaha's expertise with wood for pianos. Just as with grand piano keyboards, the solid wood is cut from the very best parts of well-dried lumber, making the keys more resistant to warping than keyboards made of laminated wood. The wooden texture and structure of the keys create a more grand piano-like feel.

Leverage Artistic Expression

When playing a digital piano, the back area of the keys may prove to be a challenge to full musical expression. This is because the back of the key is closest to the fulcrum of the action. The closer to this pivot point that you strike the key, the less leverage you have and the more strength you need to apply. The greater length of GrandTouch keys give the player more leverage, allowing for better expressive control, even at the backs of the keys. This is the same support length found on the Yamaha S3X premium grand piano and is the longest support length used on any digital piano.

88-Key Linear Graded Hammers

Every single key on a grand piano keyboard is weighted differently. This is because the strings for each note are slightly thinner and shorter in the treble register, becoming thicker and longer towards the bass register. The 88-key Linear Graded Hammers of the Clavinova is the first-of-its-kind to faithfully duplicate this graded touch with differing weights and key return on each one of its keys. This results in a feel and response that is astonishingly like that of a grand piano, and allows players to gain an appreciation of a more authentic touch.

Key Counterweights

Counterweights are embedded in the keys of a grand piano to balance the weight of the hammers and offer more precise control when playing delicately at low volumes. The Clavinova features carefully adjusted counterweights for improved playability when playing pianissimo with a light touch, and better key return in rapid passages. The keyboard of the Clavinova has been fine-tuned to offer optimal balance, emphasizing its superb playability and grand piano response.

The GP Response Damper Pedal

Using the damper pedal subtly alters the nature of a piano's sound and is essential to providing the pianist with all the necessary expressive tools to convey their musical vision.

Clavinova digital pianos feature a damper pedal that continually detects depression depth and allows halfpedaling, which lets players make minute adjustments to pedal depression and return, changing the depth and character of their piano sound.

The GP Response Damper Pedal offers a grand piano-style resistance curve, starting out light to the touch and growing heavier as the pedal is depressed further. This allows players to become accustomed to the nuances of delicate pedaling.

Grand Expression Modeling

The interaction and interplay of the hammers, dampers, and strings inside a grand piano respond to the subtlest nuances of the pianist's touch, creating a limitless range of tonal expression. Touch refers to the pianist's control, not only of intensity (softness/loudness) in playing and releasing the keys, but also of the speed and depth with which the keys are pressed. The Grand Expression Modeling introduced in the CSP-200 Series translates the widely varied input from the pianist's fingers into the same limitless tonal variation of a grand piano.

This makes it possible to vary the output by playing the keys to different depths and with different speeds, even when using techniques such as trills or legato or emphasizing the melody over the accompaniment. Grand Expression Modeling excels at faithfully reproducing the output expected of these techniques in many well-known songs. In Debussy's "Clair de Lune," a loose touch creates the faint tone that makes the melody stand out more crisply. In Liszt's "Un Sospiro," the accompanying arpeggios accent the melody without overwhelming it, and varied expression of the melody gives it the same quality as vocals. In the last of the Chopin nocturnes, trills, legato, and other delicate techniques where fingers seem to float over the keys deliver the airy, smooth tonal expression required. Playing such pieces on a highly expressive piano helps the pianist learn various techniques and experience the same joy of expression as a painter, but through sound.

Yamaha CFX And Bosendorfer Imperial Voices

Clavinova grand piano sounds are recorded from several world-renowned concert grand pianos. One of them is the CFX, Yamaha's top-flight concert grand piano. Pianists around the world are enamored with the impressive, dazzling, richly expressive sound of the CFX in concert halls. Another sampled concert grand is the Imperial, the flagship model of BÖsendorfer, a time-honored Viennese piano brand with an ardent following. The Imperial is known for its abundance of color and natural, warm feeling. Yamaha faithfully reproduces the idiosyncrasies of these concert grand pianos by carefully recording the entire tonal range of each of the 88 keys, making minute adjustments to capture the most harmonious tones each piano has to offer.

Virtual Resonance Modeling

One of the allures of the grand piano is the sympathetic resonance created by the vibration of the entire instrument. Clavinova pianos elaborately reproduce this rich sympathetic resonance through a groundbreaking technology called Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM). VRM creates a richly varied sound by simulating the complex sympathetic tones created when the vibrations of the strings are propagated to the soundboard and other strings, corresponding to the timing and intensity of key playing and pedaling. CSP-200 Series pianos even replicate the sounds the dampers make when they are raised off the strings, in addition to the resonance of the duplex scaling, strings, soundboard, and case. Clavinova pianos allow you to enjoy the same momentary dynamics and deep sympathetic sounds that are produced by the entire body of a grand piano.

Binaural Sampling For Authentic Piano Sound, Even With Headphones

Binaural sampling is a method of sampling in which special microphones are placed on a mannequin's head in the same positions as the pianist's ears to capture piano sounds the way that they sound in reality.

We chose this method to create the ambience and full, natural resonance of acoustic pianos in Clavinova pianos. This makes pianists feel as though they are sitting at a grand piano even when they play with headphones on. The experience is so pleasant that they forget they are wearing headphones, no matter how long they continue to play.

On CSP-200 Series pianos, binaural sampling was used for the BÖsendorfer Imperial as well as the Yamaha CFX. Yamaha achieves higher-definition binaural sound with a specially developed mannequin head and model ears used for the recording.

We also developed the Stereophonic Optimizer function to achieve the same effect for the piano effects. Stereophonic Optimizer technology replicates the natural diffusion of sound in headphones nearly as closely as binaural sampling for the piano voices other than the CFX and Imperial.

Connect Wirelessly For Bluetooth Audio

You can play music through the audio system on the CSP-200 Series* by using a Bluetooth-enabled smart device. You can stream audio data such as mp3 files. You can enjoy playing along with your favorite songs on your smart device.

Bluetooth Midi

This convenient wireless connection between the Yamaha CSP295 Satin Black and the Smart Pianist app (on your smart device), lets you fully focus on your playing and enjoy music without worrying about cables.

Microphone Connection

You can enjoy karaoke backing with songs stored in your Clavinova or downloaded. The lyrics are shown on the Smart Pianist app and the words change color as the song advances, so you know exactly when to come in. Plug in a microphone, and you can sing along with your playing. The Vocal Harmony engine creates advanced sounding harmonies, enriching your voice and is even capable of correcting your pitch!

Multi-Track Song Recorder

The recording function featured in Clavinova digital pianos allows you to record your performances* with a single touch, which is useful when you want to review your playing objectively. Additionally, you can record up to 16 tracks for simultaneous playback, so different hands can be recorded separately or overdub parts with different voices.

Usb Type C Connection

A USB cable (Type-C to Type-C) is included, and users who have a Smart Device with a Type-C terminal can conveniently connect the instrument to their smart device with a single cable.