Yamaha CSP-255PE Polished Ebony Smart Digital Piano

Designed to work with the Yamaha SmartPianist App, the Yamaha CSP-255PE Smart Digital Piano offers the most incredible way of learning, and enhancing your piano playing for all ages and all levels. It looks great, sounds superb and has a high quality graded key action to ensure an excellent piano playing experience. First and foremost it is a top class plan with 2 of the worlds most famous pianos including the CFX Grand and Bosendorfer Imperial, amongst a selection of other sounds from all categories from Strings, to guitars, woodwind, drums and much more.

To ensure compatibility with modern tablets, the CSP-255PE has a dedicated USB-C socket to the side of the music rest which will allow simultaneous communication and charging between most modern day tablets using the Smart Pianist app. The free Smart Pianist app offers new ways of learning including a selection of world famous tutorial books, classical music books and popular music of which all ink through to the CSP-255's guide function and key lighting system. The music displays on the screen for interaction with your playing and to take things further, it will allow you to perform with your favourite  music by analysing the audio files and calculating the chords so you can play and jam along from the piano whilst the chords follow automatically on the screen. Performing and playing music has ever been so fun or interactive. The CSP-255PE is certainly the one piano that will get the kids and adults playing of all ages in the most addictive way.

Yamaha CSP-255PE Smart Digital Piano - Features

• Polished Ebony finish
• Yamaha CFX and Bosendorfer Imperial piano sounds
• 819 Voices, 403 Songs and 495 Styles
• Yamaha CFX and Bosendorfer offer  binaural sampling - sound surrounds you when wearing headphones
• Stream lights feature - lights guide the player to the next note and upcoming notes
• Audio to Score feature calculates the chords for playing with your favourite artists tracks
• Virtual Resonance Modelling (VRM) to enhance the acoustic piano experience
• Grand Expression Modelling gives dynamics from soft and warm to louder and brighter
• GrandTouch-S keyboard for an authentic grand piano playing feel
• USB-C socket for connecting most modern tablets for use of the SmartPianist App
• Built-in Bluetooth audio
• 40 W x 2 amplifiers
• 16 cm x 2 speaker system
• You can plug a Mic in and use the onboard effects (eg reverb/delay)
• Multi-track MIDI recording (SMF format 0)
• Audio Player/Recorder (File format: WAV, AAC)
• Wireless connection to the Smart Pianist app via Bluetooth MIDI
• Free 3 Months Flowkey access for learning piano

SmartPianist App Features

• Complete control and access to all the pianos features and sounds from the compatible smart-device display
• Open and change lid positions on grand pianos and adjust the surrounding environment reverb at he touch of your finger
• Create custom piano adjustment using the piano tool feature
• 100`s of sheet music tuition books built-in for serious practice which show as full sheet music on the smart device
• 100`s of classic and classical sheet music piano pieces many with detailed orchestral arrangements with sheet music display
• The ability to play along with your own library of MP3 music and have it converted to chords/score
• Record singing and piano together using the audio recording features
• Access the many backing styles, to play along with a full backing band which will follow your chords or piano playing with drums, bass and more
• Songs expandable with MIDI files or audio files
• Full 16 track MIDI recording accessible in the app to create your full layered song recordings

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.

Enhanced 5 Year Warranty - Free

Standard Yamaha Warranty is 2 years which is already good, however, premium instruments are covered by an additional 3 years giving a total of 5 years warranty. The CSP-255PE is a premium product and qualifies for the extended warranty for complete peace of mind. Warranty covers the instrument for manufacture defects with on-site repairs inc. parts and labour. You must remember to register within 6 months to qualify. You can do that here

Backing Styles - Play With a Band

Built-in to the Yamaha CSP-255PE is a plethora of backing style accompaniments, from pop and rock, rich through to Jazz, latin, world styles and much more. The styles will follow your piano playing or you can split the piano to a chord section and melody section like a traditional keyboard. This separates the CSP from the CLP series which does not have a full backing feature. Style parts can be removed, so if you fancy playing as a jazz trio, then this can easily be achieved!

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 Modelling 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.

With the Yamaha CSP255PE Smart Pianos 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 Bosendorfer, 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.

Free Flowkey Access for 3 Months

Have you always dreamt of playing piano or keyboard? Alongside online courses, private lessons with a piano teacher or classes in a music school, there are also other options: Start learning how to play your favourite songs on your Yamaha piano or keyboard right now, at your own pace and whenever you have time with Yamaha and flowkey

flowkey is one of the world's most popular apps for learning to play the piano. Even beginners can learn to play a wide array of songs on their acoustic piano, digital piano or keyboard in next to no time. The flowkey piano app is the ideal companion for those starting to learn the piano. Choose your favourites from a wide range of songs and start playing right away or learn in the traditional way with one of the many tutorials available.

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

The Yamaha CSP255PE has Binaural sampling it's 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 Bosendorfer 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 instrument 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 on the Yamaha CSP-255PE Smart Piano

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.