Choosing The Right Digital Piano

General Digital Piano Info. Helping you choose the right one!

The following information is proved to help you choose the right piano for you. It generally talks about the Yamaha Clavinova range but will also tell you a little about the Casio, Korg, and Roland range.

Gorgeous in sound, elegant in appearance, the new CVP Digital Piano Series Clavinovas feature a stunning new design that draws on the best of past CVP models. The amazingly authentic voices and dynamic styles deliver truly professional quality sound, while the sophisticated yet easy-to-use features (including Internet connectivity) make the instrument an endless source of musical enjoyment - for young and old alike. Just on touch and you'll understand...why it's truly grand!

TRADITIONAL CRAFTSMANSHIP AND STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY

Unsurpassed beauty and elegance Every bit as beautiful as it sounds, the Clavinova radiates the dignified, commanding presence of a grand piano with its solid, finely finished cabinetry. The Polished Ebony finish recreates the formal elegance and high-class appearance of a concert grand, while the Polished Mahogany model has a warm, natural wood grain to complement and attractively furnish any interior. In addition, the CVP Digital Piano Series sports three other beautiful finishes: Mahogany, Cherry, and Dark Rosewood.

Natural Wood Keyboard for an authentic grand piano fell - CVP309 Digital Piano The new CVP309 Digital Piano utilizes the exclusive Natural Wood Keyboard feature, with real wood keys and sophisticated technology that faithfully reproduces the experience of playing an actual acoustic grand piano. From the natural, balanced weight and key mass to the authentic wood touch and fell - including rounded key tips and other genuine key shaped features - this new keyboard has a playability and expressiveness that goes beyond anything every available in an electronic instrument. The sound response varies according to velocity and key position (low notes having a slightly delayed response), and the characteristic weight gradations of the keys - heavy in the lowed end, light in the upper keys - make you feel as if your 're playing a real grand piano.

A WEALTH OF FEATURES AND EXPRESSIVE POWER - FOR MORE MUSICAL FUN

Seeing is believing Now here's a piano with a view. The extra-large LCDs - including full colour displays on the CVP309 Digital Piano, CVP307 Digital Piano, CVP305 Digital Piano - give you an at-a-glance view of all main settings, and make operation easier than every before. The Score display conveniently shows music notation in the LCD, while the Lyrics display lets you see and sing along with the words onscreen. And you can customize the display to your liking - using your own digital photos for the background. Enjoy the convenience, enjoy the control, and, most of all, enjoy the view.

True piano feel - CVP307 Digital Piano, CVP305 Digital Piano More than any other keyboard, the Clavinova reproduced the experience of playing an actual grand piano. Thanks to the GH3 (Graded Hammer effect 3) technology, the new keyboard provides the characteristic weight balance between key and hammer, and features weight gradations of the keys - heavy in the lower end, light in their upper keys, With two velocity sensors, it even lets you use techniques previously possible only on a real grand piano, such as playing the same note repeatedly with perfect articulation.

STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY DELIVERS AUTHENTIC SOUND

iAFC (Instrumental Active Field Control) - CVP309 Digital Piano - CVP307 Digital Piano The sophisticated technology puts you and your performance center stage - creating a richer, warmer and more spacious sonic environment. Using built-in microphones, iAFC picks up sound and combines it with the Clavinova's internal sound through the rear speakers, making automatic adjustments in real time to enhance your performance and match the acoustic characteristics of the room you're playing in.

Exceptionally realistic AWM tone generation The heart of the Clavinova's voices is in the AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone generation technology providing instrumental sounds of amazing realism and depth. The piano voices in particular benefit from the new Dynamic Stereo Sampling (DSS) system, which features recordingfs of differently played dynamics - from loud to soft - in order to fully capture the varying nuances in timbre and tone of a grand piano. Stereo Sustain Smaples recreate the unique resonance of the strings and soundboard of a real grand piano when the damper pedal is pressed, while Key-Off samples includ the characteristic sound that occurs when a key is released and the dampers fall back onto the strings.

MAKING IT REAL!Mega Voice technology - CVP309 Digital Piano, CVP307 Digital Piano, CVP305 Digital Piano To enhance the playback of your recorded songs and the built-in accompaniment styles, the Clavinova features Yamaha's groundbreaking Mega Voice technology. Each Mega Voice not only has the fundamental tone of the original instrument, but also the various playing techniques and performance sounds - such as finger slides and fret noise on guitar voices - giving the sound incredible realism and expressiveness. The bundled CD-ROM includes the MEGAEnhancer, a software tool for automatically converting sequences song data enabling it to take advantage of the Mega Voice capabilities.

Extraordinary realistic, expressive voices No matter what style of music you play, the Clavinova ensures you'll never be at a loss for voices. Hundreds upon hundreds of rich, realistic, dynamic voices and built into the instrument - with a selection of over 900 on the CVP309 Digital Piano and CVP307 Digital Piano. These include the specially sampled and programmed Sweet!, Live!, Cool!, and Natural! voices. The stunningly authentic instrument sounds make the Clavinova a treasure-trove of musical inspiration - providing a virtually endless palette for creative exploration and performance possibilities.

THE WIDE WORLD OF MUSIC AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

PLAY LIKE A PRO - Unleash the performer in you

Performance assistant technology makes playing like a pro easy for absolutely anyone! Whatever your level, you can make great sounding music the moment you first touch the keyboard. It's musical magic - everything you play in beautifully and professionally embellished based on the chords being played, and the accompaniment of the Clavinova follows your every move, playing in perfect rhythm and musical harmony. With Performance assistant technology turned ON, every note you platy essentially becomes the "right" note!

Karaoke fun - CVP309 Digital Piano, CVP307 Digital Piano, CVP305 Digital Piano, CVP303 Digital Piano The Clavinova is perfect for sing along fun with your family and friends. Simply connect an optional microphone, play back your favorite song data, and start the show! You can have the song lyrics shown in the display - or even output them to a separate TV monitor, CVP309 Digital Piano, CVP307 Digital Piano, CVP305 Digital Piano.

Automatic professional backing for your performance The Auto Accompaniment features of the Clavinova open up a new world of performance possibilities. The dynamic accompaniment styles encompass virtually every musical genre, and give you several different intros, variations, fill-ins, and ending to make you sound like a pro. If you don't know which style to choose, let the powerful Music Finder feature help. Simply select a song title or keyword, and it reconfigures the entire instrument, including the proper voices, style and effects.

Song playback and recording on slected Digital Pianos When it comes to playing back popular songs with complete rhythmic backing and accompaniment, the Clavinova has you covered - with a total of 120 songs in the built-in Song Book (56 songs on the CVP301 Digital Piano). You can call up the music notation for each song, and even the lyrics for certain titles. For the creative musician, the Clavinova contains a virtual 16-track recording studio, letting you craft complex songs and arrangements one track at a time, using the realistic voices built into the instrument.

Get online and tap into a new universe of music! Visit the Yamaha MusicSoft website (see address below) and discover just how many ways you can enhance your musical experience. Whether you want to play along, sing along, or just listen - we've got a huge and growing variety of special software and tools that help you get the most out of your Clavinova. Download your favorite songs to your computer and save them to a SmartMediaTM card for uploading to the Clavinova. Or, use the including MusicSoft Downloader software to directly transfer data from your computer to the Clavinova via a SUB connection. While you're at the website, check out all the powerful tools there - especially the new Digital Music Notebook system, which fully integrates music notation with both MIDI and audio data for the most comprehensive and convenient music learning experience you can have!

Create your own CDs with your Digital Piano The CVP is an ideal instrument for writing your music and creating your own arrangements. With the built-in Optical Out terminal (CVP309 Digital Piano, CVP307 Digital Piano, CVP305 Digital Piano), it also lets you send the digital audio of your music to another device for recording. For example, you can plug directly into the digital input of a conventional audio CD burner or use the optional UW10 USB-Audio Interface* to transfer your creations to a computer, via a simple USB connection. Then using a computer and conventional CD burning software, make customized CDs of your songs and performances!

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Here Are Some Tips On Choosing The Right Digital Piano

A Music Basics Guide for the Beginning Musician

In other words, beats of silence in music are counted just like beats of sound. Whether you are playing an acoustic instrument, which is the closest relative to the history just mentioned, or an electronic keyboard, you are now participating in a centuries old musical art form. The Quarter rest is a musical symbol which stands for one beat of silence.

Music Was Never Meant To Last

It was bound to happen. No genre, style or art form wasever meant to last. Radio's almost effortless cashflow made it ripe for consolidation. The greater theextremes, the higher the pedestal he climbs the greater the fall. I'd much rather be a folk hero with a loyal cultfollowing, playing the music I love than selling out for a shotat a fickle mass market audience that will dump me in aheartbeat for the next new artist that comes along.

Music Inspired by the Angels

Sounds of Light Productions is comprised of the musical team of Elizabeth Sullivan-Holleman, Lynne DeRussy and a talented young woman named Mary Catherine. Do you have plans for future projects or productions? Those who enjoy liturgical music and more traditional music will likely enjoy Angel Light. After we finished the Irish Mass, we wanted to create music for the prayers of the Rosary and also wished to put some of our favorite Psalms to music. For more information on Sounds of Light Productions or to order Angel Light, visit www.soundsoflightproductions.com Lisa M.

Music & Intelligence: Will Listening to Music Make You Smarter?

And further research by Rauscher and her colleagues in 1994 showed that after eight months of keyboard lessons, preschoolers demonstrated a 46% boost in their spatial reasoning IQ, a skill important for certain types of mathematical reasoning. The bottom line is this:. In 1994 Discover magazine published an article which discussed research by Gottfried Schlaug, Herman Steinmetz and their colleagues at the University of Dusseldorf.

Taking Care of your Soul mate: Useful Piano Care Tips

The wet portion must not be left wet for more than a minute. About the Author The writer, Ismael D. To polish the cabinet it is best to use piano polish. Once you start playing it, you two are hopelessly entwined, enjoying a world of your own, mindless of what goes on outside your world. It is recommended to clean the keys with a light soap solution preferably that of Ivory brand The Cabinet:Some pianos, especially those with high-gloss finish should be handled with utmost care.

Notes on the History of the Piano

It was Muzio Clementi, whose"3 Sonatas, Opus 2" in 1770 triggered the emergence of the newplaying techniques and styles of expression needed to master thepiano. By Persian Abu Nasre Farabi, who called it a Santur. Elizabeth Miller is aprofessional freelance copywriter and a general partner inMiller Bridges Partners. Soon there were solopiano performances to packed concert halls in Europe and fromthere, the piano found its way to Great Britain and America.

Piano Lessons and Perfectionism

What a pity that is. Does every note have to sound right before it comes out of your piano? To get a grade or a "that's good?" It's a shame but this happens all the time in music schools. If so, you might be cheating yourself out of the joy of music making. Are you a perfectionist?

Mainstream Music with a Positive Attitude

I feel that, like anyone, my music draws heavily on theinfluences I had growing up. Who are some of your musical influences? Which song on the CD is your personal favorite and why? For some, this will happen at 16.For others, 36.

Bangkok is not a city for classical music

I haven't found a single area of the city that isn't drowning in these portable storefronts. The fine structures composed by the great musical minds of Europe took an eye for detail and a knack for planning that seemed embedded in the way of life in the great cities where this music was lovingly created. The pollution is tearing down the buildings asfast as the construction is putting them up. Buildings that obviously tookrndecades of care and craftsmanship to fine tune to a standard unseen by the restrnof the world.

Classical Music Therapy

It is these rhythms that are influenced and synchronized with certain music and sound patterns. The Greek mathematician, Pythagoras theorized that music diminished and even eradicated negative energy and emotions. Used for pain, migraines, cancer, stress, upset stomach, fatigue, depression and other, multiple disorders; music therapy can reduce heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, stress and anxiety.