EXPERIENCE FULL CONTROL WITH SMART PIANIST

With the Yamaha Smart Pianist app, you have full control over your instrument using your smart device. Easily choose from a wide range of instrument sounds and switch between various virtual performance spaces, such as a concert hall or cathedral, enhancing your acoustic environment.

*The app is available at the App Store and Google Play.

PLAY EVEN IF YOU CAN’T READ MUSIC

Stream Lights guide you as you effortlessly follow musical notes and their timing with four LED lights moving toward the keys, ensuring accurate and synchronized playing as you learn your favorite songs. Use the Guide function to pause the song until you play the correct keys, helping you learn easily.

EXPLORE A LIBRARY OF SONGS AND ADD YOUR OWN

The Clavinova CSP-200 Series features a wide range of songs, from popular and classical tunes to practice exercises. Easily access sheet music through the Yamaha Smart Pianist app and use Stream Lights to help guide your practice sessions. Additionally, add your favorite songs to your collection through Smart Pianist.

INSTANTLY PLAY YOUR FAVORITE TUNES WITH AUDIO-TO-SCORE

When you want to play a song, but don’t know where to begin or what to do, use the Audio-to-Score feature in the Smart Pianist App. Audio-to-Score analyzes MP3s and other audio song data and creates chord charts with over 50 varieties of accompaniment to suit your playing level. All you have to do is follow the Stream Lights.

ADD VARIETY TO YOUR PERFORMANCES

The Clavinova CSP-200 Series offers a wide range of instrument Voices for expressive musical performance. The CSP Series Style content provides lively accompaniment for various genres, allowing for total control over your own virtual backing band.

GRANDTOUCH™ KEYBOARD

Yamaha’s latest keyboard 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 your 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 often proves 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. This challenge is solved with the greater length of GrandTouch™ keys, which give you 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, resulting in an authentic feel and response like that of a grand piano.

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.

GRANDTOUCH™ PEDALS

GrandTouch™ Pedals offer the unique friction felt when using a grand piano pedal, heavy when pressed and light on the return. They also feature a mechanism with the fulcrum in a similar position to that on a grand piano, bringing the playing experience that much closer to a grand. The CSP-295GP also features a “GP Response Damper” that reproduces the weight of an actual damper, recreating the pedal feel of a grand piano.

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

Clavinova pianos boast excellent playability and versatile functions, along with a refined, authentic design and modern aesthetics befitting the instrument that sets the contemporary standard for pianos. At the heart of the design is the way the player feels when they take their seat in front of the instrument. Unnecessary elements are removed from your field of vision to create a convincingly natural space that feels just like sitting at an acoustic piano. And since the Clavinova will be part of your home, contemporary accents and color variations are available to mesh with any interior design or lifestyle. The CSP-295GP features a piano top that can be opened and closed, giving it an elegant appearance with the glamour of a grand piano.

GRAND EXPRESSION MODELING

The interaction and interplay of the hammers, dampers, and strings inside a grand piano respond to the subtlest nuances of your touch, creating a limitless range of tonal expression. “Touch” refers to 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 your 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.

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 groundbreaking method of simulating sound in which special microphones capture the piano the way it sounds in reality. This helps to create the ambience and the full, natural resonance of acoustic pianos in Clavinova pianos, making you feel as though you’re sitting at a grand piano, even with headphones on. On CSP-200 Series pianos, binaural sampling was used for the Bösendorfer Imperial as well as the Yamaha CFX. 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.

GRAND ACOUSTIC IMAGING

When a pianist plays a grand piano, they cause the entire body of the instrument to reverberate, and become enveloped in the colorful tones created from the combination of various acoustic elements in the air around them. The pianist becomes immersed in the diffusing sound and reverberation. The CSP-295 delivers this unique experience through Grand Acoustic Imaging. The latest acoustic design and measuring technology create the same sound image and sound field of a grand piano despite the compact size of the digital piano. Yamaha optimally balanced and placed the bass, mid, and treble speakers to achieve the sound and feeling of grand pianos so that each and every tone played through the speakers sounds like it was emitted from the proper place on an actual grand piano. The speaker placement and balancing replicates the sensation of the hammers striking the strings in front of the pianist, and the reverberations from the strings dissipating away from them. Yamaha also used a Bidirectional Horn to achieve the full reverberation of sounds emitted by the entire grand piano soundboard, replicating the sense of depth experienced when playing an acoustic grand piano.

SPRUCE CONE SPEAKER

Drawing from Yamaha’s experience in building both acoustic pianos and high-end speakers, the CSP-295 speaker cones use pulp from the same spruce wood used to make acoustic piano sound boards. The result is a more natural, piano-like attack to the sound.