CASIO GP300 GRAND HYBRID DIGITAL PIANO SATIN BLACK FINISH
Casio Celviano Grand Hybrid GP-300 Digital Piano, Satin Black Finish GP300BK
Ever since Carl Bechstein founded his Pianoforte production facility in Berlin in 1853, the name C. Bechstein has stood for the highest class of upright and grand pianos – a reputation that stands to this day. Moving forward into the 21st Century, C. Bechstein has collaborated with the Casio Electronic Musical Instrument Corporation to produce a series of Hybrid Pianos combining cutting edge Digital technlogy with a world class grand piano action. It is this collaboration with one of the world’s leading musical technology companies that makes the GP300 Grand Hybrid Piano such a compelling choice for the modern pianist.
Featuring a German grand piano action constructed by Bechstein and highly sophisticated and harmonically complex digital samples of leading concert grand pianos from Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg, the Grand Hybrid GP300 is a musical masterpiece and ready for you to create your own. The Concert Play feature offers you the ability to play along with a full orchestra backing on popular classical pieces.
Casio Celviano Grand Hybrid GP-300 Digital Piano Features
- 3 Grand Piano tones (Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna)
- AiR Grand Sound Source
- Natural Grand Hammer Action Keyboard
- Grand Acoustic System
- Grand Pedal System
- Adjustable lid position
- Concert Play (15 titles)
- Music Library (60 titles)
- MIDI and audio recording
- USB to host and device
- 26 tones
- Five Year Warranty
The Casio Celviano GP300 Grand Hybrid brings together the culmination of three decades of Casio’s electronic musical instrument technology along with the expertise of German Piano manufacturers C. Bechstein to offer pianists of all levels a superior 9-foot concert grand piano experience in a truly compact and cutting edge format.
THREE LEGENDARY PIANOS
The Celviano Grand Hybrid reproduces every subtle nuance of three of the world’s most respected pianos. The three pianos that were chosen for this project originated in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna and Casio has painstakingly researched and analysed the unique characteristics of each piano. The Celviano Grand Hybrid delivers the superb tone and timbre of these pianos through the use of Casio’s advanced AiR technology. For the first time in the history of the pianoforte, pianists have the opportunity to experience owning three of the finest pianos on earth in one instrument.
o BERLIN GRAND – A Balanced elegant sound. Ideal for playing impressionistic music. Notable for its clear, ringing tone across the entire range.
o HAMBURG GRAND – A brilliant, rich sound. Loved by pianists for its wide range of expression. Well suited for various playing styles and genres.
o VIENNA GRAND – Noted for its impressive low range. Great for both soft and vigorous playing with its warm tone. An ideal instrument for music from the classical period.
SOUND DEVELOPMENT IN COLLABORATION
The Berlin Grand sound was developed in collaboration with C. Bechstein. Casio sought a clear, balanced and elegant sound for the Celviano Grand Hybrid piano. C. Bechstein’s ultimate masterpiece, the D282, is the model Casio intensively studied to achieve the goal. Mr. Albrecht, Service Director and Master Piano Make at C. Bechstein, visited Casio R&D to supervise the sound development process through to the final stages of production.
ABOUT C. Bechstein
“Superior sound and a professssional touch. We believe we have crafted a sensational digital piano we can be very proud of.” – Werner Albrecht, Service Director and Master Piano Maker (Klavierbaumeister) at C. Bechstein
“Casio is a very successful company in the field of electronic musical instruments. C. Bechstein is Europe’s most important maker of high-end acoustic grand and upright pianos, with 160 years history and expertise in traditional craftsmanship. With their rich and noble tone, providing a wide range of tone colours and their professional and elegant touch, C. Bechstein pianos have continued to inspire and delight music lovers and famous artists around the world. We are confident that these two companies, by collaborating in a partnership that draws on their mutual experience, can create new digital pianos unlike anything we have seen before. For this project, we developed the tone colours for the CELVIANO Grand Hybrid “Berlin Grand” based on sampling of a C. Bechstein concert grand piano. At the same time, we focused our efforts on also achieving an excellent key action. Through this collaboration between Casio and C. Bechstein, we believe we can take pride in having created a very competitive digital piano with excellent sound and a professional touch.”
“Getting closer to perfection in collaboration with C. Bechstein. There was no compromise in our development process of the distinctive character of Grand Hybrid.” – Naoaki Ito, Sound Designer at Casio
“The collaboration with C. Bechstein gave Casio an opportunity to discover the true beauty of traditional grand pianos. With greater understanding of their fundamental elements, we modified our approach to develop new instruments that are evolutionary steps forward from other digital pianos. In this challenging work, we experienced immensely exciting moments with many discussions. As the sound was expected to be perfect, we focused not only on the tone of each individual note but also reverberation in actual musical performances. After developing higher quality keys, we worked to create a mechanism that responds to the subtle nuances of a player‘s touch. The superior feel of CELVIANO Grand Hybrid is the result of our work with persistent attitude without compromise. Casio hopes everyone can try CELVIANO Grand Hybrid and enjoy the experience.”
NATURAL GRAND HAMMER ACTION KEYBOARD
For a really authentic piano touch, Casio has developed a new keyboard system called the “Natural Grand Hammer Action Keyboard”. This keyboard system features full-length wooden keys as well as hammers that follow the same path of motion as in a concert grand piano.
Celviano Grand Hybrid features keys that are manufactured using exactly the same materials as an acoustic grand piano. Careful attention is paid not only to finish of the surfaces of the keys but also to the quality of the European Spruce employed for the key beds. The combination of an outstanding action mechanism and superior-quality key materials further enhances the sensation of playing an acoustic grand piano.
1) ORIGINAL TRI-SENSOR ACTION MECHANISM
The core of Celviano Grand Hybrid’s keyboard performance is created by Casio’s proprietary action mechanism. This mechanism features a hammer movement modeled from a grand piano and includes three sensors which accurately capture a performer’s expression from the keys. Since there are no physical strings, Casio’s action is able to exceed the performance characteristics of a grand piano, providing superior playability that enables pianists to perform such actions as trills and repetitive notes with ease.
2) CONCERT CALIBRE KEYBOARD SURFACE MATERIALS
Pianists will feel immediately comfortable and confident on the keys of the Celviano Grand Hybrid. The Grand Hybrid features keys made from acrylic for the white keys textured to feel like ivory and phenol for the black keys with an ebony feel surface— the same materials that modern grand pianos employ. This creates a welcome and familiar touch making the transition to a Concert Grand Piano in performance situations virtually seemless.
3) FULCRUM DISTANCE FROM KEYS
The position of the fulcrum with respect to the keys is exactly the same as with a grand piano. This contributes to stable playing performance, since the touch is never heavier or lighter depending on the position at which a finger strikes a key. The Casio Grand Hybrid has redefined the Digital Piano genre.
CASIO CELVIANO GP300 GRAND HYBRID FEATURES
• CASIO GP300 CONCERT PLAY
Playing with an orchestra is an extraordinarily thrilling event. Concert Play feature demonstrates orchestral performance for a pianist to enjoy an experience of playing as a soloist accompanied by a full orchestra. 15 pieces of music are built in. When you practice, a convenient playback function offers capabilities of play, pause, fast-forward, rewind and A-B segment repeat. Using a Slow Mode, the tempo of these pieces can be slowed to 80% of normal speed as needed.
• CASIO GP300 AUDIO RECORDER
Celviano Grand Hybrid pianos have the ability to record performances directly to USB flash drive as stereo audio files (44.1 kHz, stereo .WAV format). Recordings can be stored or played back on a computer or transferred to CDs or other media. The piano’s built-in full playback function permits use of such features as pause, fast-forward, rewind and A-B segment repeat.
• CASIO GP300 MIDI RECORDER
This function enables players to record their own performances freely in the Celviano Grand Hybrid’s memory. It helps users improve their playing skills by reviewing their own performances objectively afterwards. This full playback function permits use of such features as pause, fast-forward, rewind and A-B segment repeat during playback.
• CASIO GP300 GRAND HYBRID MUSIC LIBRARY
The Celviano Grand Hybrid includes 60 piano pieces in its digital Music Library. A book with the scores for these pieces are included making the GP300 Grand Hybrid an incredible learning tool. Left and Right hand parts may be turned on or off to be practiced separately. The Tempo of each piece may also be controlled and an A-B segment repeat allows you to practice a section of the piece. Each piece has a selected preset tone however, you may also make your own choice from the Berlin Grand, Hamburg Grand and Vienna Grand tones.
• CASIO GP300 GRAND HYBRID DUET MODE
The keys to the left and right of center on the keyboard can be set to the same tonal range. This Duet Mode is convenient when two players, such as a parent and child or a teacher and student, practice together.
• CASIO GP300 GRAND HYBRID LAYER AND SPLIT
The layer function enables pianists to overlap two types of tones, while the split function lets them separate tones into lower and higher blocks.
• CASIO GP300 GRAND HYBRID AUTO POWER OFF
To conserve energy, Celviano Grand Hybrid will Automatically Power Off when the instrument has not been played for 4 hours.
• CASIO GP300 GRAND HYBRID ERGONOMIC INTERFACE
Intuitive control of Celviano Grand Hybrid is possible through a simple, considerately designed control panel. The Berlin Grand, Hamburg Grand and Vienna Grand are easily accessed with dedicated buttons for each piano tone.
• CASIO GP300 GRAND HYBRID FIVE YEAR WARRANTY
All Casio keyboards, digital pianos and synthesizers purchased from southcoastmusic – an authorised Australian Casio reseller, are backed by a 5 year warranty.
o CASIO GRAND HYBRID GP300 SPECIFICATIONS
• 88-key, Grand Hybrid action with same Austrian Spruce as used on C. Bechstein Pianos
• 5 levels of touch sensitivity, plus off
• AiR Grand sound source with 256 note polyphony
o CASIO GRAND HYBRID GP300 26 BUILT-IN TONES INCLUDING:
• Berlin Grand (mellow, normal, bright)
• Vienna Grand (mellow, normal, bright)
• Hamburg Grand (mellow, normal, bright)
• Grand Piano (modern, rock, jazz)
• Electric piano (1, 2, FM, 60’s)
• Harpsichord
• Vibraphone
• Strings (1,2)
• Organ (pipe, jazz, elec 1, elec 2)
• Bass (acoustic, ride)
• 17 temperament types
• 5 types of stretch tuning plus off and auto setting
• Layer/Split/Duet voice modes
o CASIO GRAND HYBRID GP300 DIGITAL EFFECTS INCLUDING:
• Hall simulator (12 types x 4 positions)
• Chorus (4 types)
• Brilliance (-3 to 0 to 3)
• DSP (built into some tones)
o CASIO GRAND HYBRID GP300 ACOUSTIC SIMULATOR WITH ADJUSTABLE:
• Damper resonance
• Damper noise
• Hammer response
• String resonance
• Lid Simulator
• Open String resonance
• Aliquot resonance
• Pedal action noise
• Key on action noise
• Key off action noise
o CASIO GRAND HYBRID GP300 SONG LIBRARY INCLUDES:
• 15 Concert Play pieces
• 60 Music Library pieces
• 6 Demo songs
• 10 User expansion songs
o CASIO GRAND HYBRID GP300 DIMENSIONS & FURNISHED ACCESSORIES
• Dimensions: W143.4 x D48.9 x H96.3 cm
• Weight: 77.5 kg
• Accessories Included: AC Adapter, Score Book, Music Stand
