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Finish: Polished White

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Retail Price: $9,999.00

About: The flagship grand piano style model of the Clavinova CLP Series, featuring a counterweighted GrandTouch keyboard, and the finest sound system in the series.

Overview:

The flagship Clavinova CLP in a gorgeous grand piano cabinet gives you the ultimate grand piano experience. The touch sensor control panel disappears when not in use to hide the powerful technology beneath the classic piano cabinetry.

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.

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 (as of July 2020), and is the longest support length used on any digital piano.

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.

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 escapement mechanism in a grand piano moves the hammers away from the strings quickly after they strike them, in order to prevent any interference with string vibration. This mechanism produces a slight clicking sensation when the keys are pressed gently.

The Clavinova keyboards feature an escapement mechanism that reproduces this sensation near the bottom of the key dip. They have been designed in such a way that the click is discernible only on the lightest keystrokes, similar to the keyboard of a grand piano. These keyboards have been adjusted to provide additional friction that balances key repetition and response without impeding performance.

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.

Clavinova pianos boast excellent playability, versatility, and a refined design that sets the standard for digital pianos. The Clavinova design concept is centered around the way a player feels when they take their seat at the keys. On select models, we remove any and all unnecessary elements from the player’s field of vision to recreate the natural experience of sitting at an acoustic piano. That way, concert grand players can practice exactly the way they perform. As a major facet of a player’s everyday life, Clavinova pianos are available in a variety of colors and finishes to enhances any interior design aesthetic or lifestyle.

The touch panel only displays text when it is on—when the panel is off, it has the smooth finish of a keyblock.

Sensitivity

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 CLP-700 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.

SKU YAM-CLP795GPWH
Vendor Yamaha
Bluetooth Audio Receiving and App Connectivity
Built In Speakers Yes
Connectivity USB
Included From Manufacturer BC108PE piano bench 50 Classical Music Masterpieces book PA-500 power supply
Keys Weighted Hammer Weighted
Key Cover Yes
Number of Keys 88
MPN CLP795GPWH
Piano Cabinet Style Grand
Accompaniments Yes
Duet Mode Yes
Finish Polished White
Half-Damper Support Yes
Audio Inputs 1/8″ stereo aux input
Audio Outputs (2) 1/4″ stereo headphone outputs Dual 1/4″ stereo aux output
Key Action Yamaha GrandTouch keyboard: wooden keys (white only), synthetic ebony and ivory key tops, escapement
Layer Feature Yes
Metronome Yes
Pedals Damper pedal with half pedal effect Sostenuto pedal Soft pedal Assignable functions: sustain (switch), sustain continuously, sostenuto, soft, pitch bend up, pitch bend down, rotary speed, vibe rotor, song play/pause
Rhythm Patterns 20
Song Recorder Audio & MIDI
Number of Songs 250
Number of Sounds 53 Voices 14 Drum/SFX Kits 480 XG Voices
Speaker Power (50 W + 50 W + 50 W) × 2
Speaker Size (6.3″ + 3.15″ + 0.98″ (dome) + transducer) × 2, Spruce Cone Speaker
Split Feature Yes
Storage Type USB Flash Drive;Internal
Number of Tracks 16
Transpose Feature Yes
Voices of Polyphony 256
Weight 277 lbs
Width 56 1/4″
Depth 48 5/8″
Height 35 7/8″ 61 7/8″ with top open 40 3/8″ with top open on lowest setting