Yamaha Pianos Yamaha CSP150B Black Walnut Clavinova Tablet Controlled Smart Piano

The sound of some of the finest concert grand pianos in the world

With two world-renowned concert grand pianos available at thetouch of a button, the Yamaha CSP150 digital piano lets you choose the perfect piano tone for the music you want to play. Offering far more than just sampled sounds, the CSP Series reproduces the Yamaha CFX concert grand and the legendary Bosendorfer Imperial in meticulous detail.

A fully immersive concert grand experience—even with headphones

Yamaha’s advanced binaural sampling technology is nowavailable on the Clavinova CSP150. The technology uses samples from the CFX,Yamaha’s acclaimed concert grand piano, recorded with specialized microphones that capture locational information and other nuances discerned by the human ear. The resulting sound is so natural, so enveloping, that you’ll soon forget you’re even wearing headphones atall.

Variety is the spice of life

The CSP-150 features hundreds of high-quality instrumentVoices including "Natural!", "Sweet!" and "Cool!" Voices sampled specially to compliment the instrument types. Yamaha's Super Articulation Voices (SA) add genuine performance attributes of the real musical instruments as though they were being naturally performed by a virtuoso of that instrument instead of from the keys of a piano keyboard. Examples include "fret noise" or "body knocks" from a guitar or the "inhales", "exhales" and glissandos from wind instruments. By simply varying your touch and playing techniques or using the pedals, voices will add significant authenticity to your sound.

When you want to play more than just piano

One of the defining features of a CSP Clavinova is themultitude of different Styles that can be controlled in real-time byplaying chords on the keyboard. Accompaniment Styles introduce ensemblesof virtual musicians to your performances in a variety of musicalgenres. From small jazz ensembles to full orchestras, you control whatchords or harmony they play by what you play, plus you control thedynamic of the ensemble. Developed by professional session musiciansfrom around the world, Styles add authentic, studio-quality backingplayers to your performances - even when you play by yourself.

The Graded Hammer 3X Keyboard (GH3X)

The touch of the CSP-150 keyboard has been praised bypianists for a performance feel that makes you forget you’re playing adigital piano, offering authentic response to the force of your touchand a natural key return. Utilizing the same hammering system andspring-less mechanism as a grand piano, GH3X actions accuratelyreproduce the touch of an acoustic piano from the heavy feel in thelower register to the lighter touch in the upper octaves.

Escapement mechanism of Clavinova Keyboards

The escapement mechanism in a grand piano moves the hammersaway from the strings quickly after they strike them, in order toprevent any interference with string vibration. This mechanism produces aslight clicking sensation when the keys are pressed gently. Since RealGrand Expression offers players superb sound, touch and pedaling, wedecided to create an escapement that delivers outstanding playability,repetition, and response without impeding performance. The Clavinovakeyboards feature an escapement mechanism that reproduces this sensationnear the bottom of the key dip. They have been designed in such a waythat the click is discernible only on the lightest keystrokes, similarto the keyboard of a grand piano. These keyboards have been adjusted toprovide additional friction that balances key repetition and responsewithout impeding performance.

Synthetic ivory and ebony keytops—a pleasure to play even after hours of performance

Our fingers are more sensitive than we think, and forpianists, the texture of the piano keys is extremely important. The NWXkeyboard features white keys made from the highest quality syntheticivory, developed independently by Yamaha. The black keys are finished insynthetic ebony. Synthetic ivory keytops reproduce the tactile surfaceof the real ivory keyboards once used in older acoustic pianos. Itfeatures highly absorbent material that prevents fingers from slippingeven after hours of practice, while retaining the ideal texture andfeel. Resulting from well over a century of experience in makingacoustic pianos, this exclusive Yamaha technology achieves a finish thatfeels natural and comfortable. In addition to the feel, the appearanceand fine texture of these keys is unmatched by any other digital piano,and is sure to inspire pianists from the moment they experience it.

Keyboard Stabilizers—unique Yamaha mechanisms for improved keyboard stability and durability

Keyboards fulfill the vital role of transforming emotion fromyour fingertips into sound and therefore, must be smooth to play inorder to maintain superb touch for prolonged performances. That is whyYamaha has fitted Keyboard Stabilizers to all 88 keys, offering players anatural touch and improving the stability and durability of thekeyboard.

For a sound that truly resonates with the listener

In a grand piano, strings and sounds resonate throughout theentire body of the instrument producing a rich reverberation thatenvelops the listener in sound. Not only are the strings you are playingvibrating, but other strings ring as a reaction to ones you play. Thisis one reason the piano's sound is so complex and rich.

This phenomenon is reproduced perfectly in the Clavinovathrough Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) which calculates the variousstates of the strings for each of the 88 notes on the keyboard from oneinstant to the next. As a result, the Clavinova reflects the limitlessnumber of factors inherent in playing an acoustic piano such as whichkeys are pressed, the strength with which the keys are played and pedaltiming.

Acoustic Optimizer

The speakers attached to the body exhibit a phenomenon inwhich, if nothing is done, the volume of the sound will increase due tothe resonant frequency of the body. Conversely, installing pipes withthe same resonant frequency within the body suppresses this resonance.Acoustic optimizers utilize this phenomenon.

This improvement of the sound is something that has only beenpossible thanks to Yamaha‘s thorough knowledge of the internal acousticcharacteristics of musical instruments.

Sing in perfect Harmony… with yourself!

You can enjoy karaoke backing with songs stored in yourClavinova or downloaded from YamahaMusicsoft.com. The lyrics are shownon the Smart Pianist app and the words change color as the songadvances, so you know exactly when to come in.

Plug in a microphone, and you can sing along with yourplaying. 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 pianosallows you to record your performances* with a single touch, which isuseful when you want to review your playing objectively. Additionally,you can record up to 16 tracks for simultaneous playback, so differenthands can be recorded separately or overdub parts with different Voices.

*Recordings are made in MIDI format, and can also be recorded to Smart Pianist App

Audio Recorder

Record performances to Smart Pianist App and create audio files* you can save and play back on a Smart device.

Connect wirelessly for Smart Pianist

Smart Pianist App supports not only wired connection but also wireless connection via UD-WL01, Wi-Fi USB wireless LAN adaptor.