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Smart Pianist for Yamaha Clavinova CLP-725

Anyone can enjoy the piano more with Smart Pianist, a dedicated app for smart devices that provides various music-related functions when connected to a compatible Yamaha digital piano.

*Depending on which Yamaha digital piano you use Smart Pianist with, specific features are available. Please refer to the web page of your digital piano at usa.yamaha.com for details.

Yamaha CLP-725 Clavinova Digital Piano

Clavinova Console Digital Piano with Bench

The Yamaha Clavinova CLP-725 is perfect for the beginner or intermediate player. Choose from two world-class concert grand pianos, the Yamaha CFX and the Bösendorfer Imperial. Grand Expression Modeling delivers expressive capabilities approaching those of a grand piano!  With over a century of acoustic piano manufacturing heritage, it only makes sense that the best digital pianos come from Yamaha.

The Yamaha CLP-725 Includes:

Piano Bench (BC108), 50 Classical Music Masterpieces Book, Owner’s Manual, Power Adapter (PA-300C)

Yamaha Clavinova CLP-725 Features:

• • GrandTouch-S™ keyboard with synthetic ebony and ivory key tops gives you the feeling of an acoustic grand’s light to heavy weighted keys, allowing for more precise playability.

  • Binaural Sampling technology delivers a three-dimensional sound, which recreates the perspective of the player position through headphones.

  • Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) allows for vivid and richly-varied expression to reflect the limitless number of factors that create the sound of a concert grand piano.

  • Grand Expression Modeling simulates the mechanics of the hammers, strings, and all the internal components of the piano and transfers them into the control of your fingertips. This gives the ultimate feeling of articulation and expression.

  • Dual mode (adding two sounds together) and Duo keyboard mode. When the Duo mode is activated on this instrument, two different players can play the instrument simultaneously, with the same sound, over the same octave range.  One person can be on the left and the other on the right. This is useful for learning applications, in which one person (a teacher, for example) plays a model performance and the other person watches and practices while sitting at the first person’s side.

Newly sampled voices of the CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial grand pianos, with binaural sound from the CFX grand piano. Also enjoy playing along with a variety of rhythms.

• New Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial piano samples with new Yamaha CFX binaural sampling
• 10 Preset Voices
• Grand Expression Modeling
• GrandTouch-S™ keyboard with synthetic ebony and ivory keytops
• 20 W x 2 amplifiers
• 12 cm x 2 speaker system

Grand Expression Modeling

Grand Expression Modeling is a groundbreaking new technology that enables the pianist to use their techniques to produce the limitless tonal variation unique to grand pianos. The ability to vary the intensity and speed of touch to produce different tones adds another dimension to the joy of musical expression.

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. For 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.

GrandTouch-S™ keyboard

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, it is all 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.

Escapement mechanism of Clavinova keyboards

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. For example, 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.

A fully immersive concert grand experience—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 CLP-700 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.

2-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 2 tracks for simultaneous playback.  Therefore, different hands can be recorded separately or you can overdub parts with different voices.

*Recordings are made in MIDI format. Compatible software is required for playback of recorded data on a computer.

Yamaha Clavinova CLP-725 Specifications

• Number of Keys: 88
• Type of Keys: GrandTouch-S™ keyboard: synthetic ebony and ivory keytops, escapement
• Touch Sensitivity: Fixed, Soft, Medium, Hard
• Presets: 10 Voices
• Polyphony: 256 Notes
• Effects Types: 4 x Reverb
• Sequencer: 2-track (MIDI sequencing info)
• Song Playback: 10 Demo and 50 Classics
• Storage: 960 KB internal memory
• Metronome: Yes
• Audio Outputs: 2 x 1/4" (main out)
• MIDI I/O: In/Out/Thru
• Headphones: Standard stereo phone jack (x 2)
• Number of Pedals: 3-pedal unit (damper, sostenuto, soft)
• Built-in Speakers: 2 x 4.72"
• Amplifier: 2 x 20W
• Power Source: 12V DC power supply (included)
• Height: 34"
• Width: 53"
• Depth: 17"
• Weight: 94 lbs.

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