Name: YAMAHA CSP170PE Clavinova Digital Piano Polished Ebony Finish with matching Yamaha Bench
SKU: CSP170PE

YAMAHA CSP170-PE CLAVINOVA

Your music…Your Piano…Your way…without compromise.

o Polished Ebony Finish with Matching Bench
o Includes Innovative Smart Pianist App
o NWX Keyboard with Escapement for an incredible Grand Piano Experience
o Yamaha CFX and Bosendorfer Concert Grand Piano Samples
o More than 600 Voices that cover every Musical genre
o Stream Lights Song Recognition Function
o Digital Multi Track Recorder for Composing Your Own Pieces
o Upright Design with Full Backboard for Stunning Look

If you have always dreamed of learning to play the Piano or you are ready to move up from your old out-of-tune acoustic piano, your dreams can come to life with this brand new Clavinova CSP170.

The cutting edge CSP170 Digital Piano operates on two levels:

A DIGITAL PIANO – Simply switch it on and enjoy the wonderful sound of a Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano or . . .
A MODERN DIGITAL PIANO ENSEMBLE- Connect a Smart Device such as an iPad and discover a whole new world of musical expression and creativity!

By simply scanning the songs in your smart device’s music library, the CSP will produce a chord chart, a piano score as well as showing you which keys to play and when – with the intuitive Stream Lights feature! Never before has technology been able to make this dream a reality! The CSP170PE is a beautiful marriage of Technology and Tradition.

THE SOUND AND TOUCH OF THE WORLD’S FINEST GRAND PIANOS

With two world-renowned concert grand pianos available at the touch of a button, the CSP Series 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 Bӧsendorfer Imperial in meticulous detail. This is truly inspirational.

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE ACOUSTICS OF A CONCERT HALL

Yamaha’s advanced binaural sampling technology is now available on the CSP170 Clavinova. The technology uses digital samples from the CFX, Yamaha’s acclaimed concert grand piano, recorded with specialised 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 at all.

PLAY YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS RIGHT AWAY WITH THE “AUDIO TO SCORE” FUNCTION

Smart Pianist features an “Audio To Score” function that automatically creates a piano accompaniment score from songs on your smart device, allowing you to enjoy playing along with your favorite tunes.

YOUR OWN BACKING BAND ACCOMPANIMENTS THAT YOU CAN EVEN SING ALONG WITH

Enjoy accompaniment from a dynamic backing band, even when you’re playing by yourself. The accompaniment provides a wide variety of patterns across a range of genres to match your performance. You can also connect a microphone and sing along with harmony functions that allow you to automatically create a chorus backup for your performances, even when you’re singing alone.

CONCERT GRAND PIANO SOUND AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

With two world-renowned concert grand pianos available at the touch of a button, the CSP Series 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 celebrated Yamaha CFX and the legendary Bӧsendorfer Imperial Grand Pianos in meticulous detail. The amount of memory used to create these incredible samples is more than that of the computer used to take man to the moon and back!

EFFORTLESS PERFORMANCE

For more than 35 years Clavinova has continued to evolve while seeking to provide the touch and tone of a concert grand piano—the ultimate symbol of piano excellence. This authentic grand piano experience is the product of the knowledge and expertise that Yamaha has accumulated over more than 100 years of crafting acoustic pianos.

Utilising state-of-the-art technology to achieve grand piano quality, Clavinova digital pianos offer an inviting playing experience that is perfect for players of all levels. They emulate the touch and tone of a grand piano to make the transition from digital to acoustic piano a seamless and enjoyable one.

VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

The CSP-150 features hundreds of high-quality instrument Voices 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, SA voices will add significant authenticity to your sound.

STYLES TO DRIVE YOUR IMAGINATION

One of the defining features of a CSP Clavinova is the multitude of different Styles that can be controlled in real-time by playing chords on the keyboard.

Accompaniment Styles introduce ensembles of virtual musicians to your performances in a variety of musical genres. From small jazz ensembles to full orchestras, you control what chords or harmony they play by what you play, plus you control the dynamics of the ensemble. Developed by professional session musicians from around the world, these Styles add authentic, studio-quality backing players to your performances – even when you play by yourself.

HAND CRAFTED NATURAL WOOD X KEYBOARD FOR THE FEEL OF A CONCERT GRAND PIANO

Yamaha Natural Wood X (NWX) keyboards are created using the unrivaled expertise acquired through more than a century of crafting fine pianos.

Just as with grand pianos, the material used for Natural Wood X keyboards is cut from wood that has been carefully dried specifically for use in making musical instruments. Only the best wood from the finest part of each tree is selected, resulting in a keyboard that is more resistant to buckling and warping than common laminated wood keyboards.

The Yamaha Natural Wood X keyboard features the same action and three-sensor configuration as Graded Hammer 3X keyboards, which accurately senses and interprets the behavior of the keyboard for a response that feels very similar to that of a grand piano. This allows you to vividly perform smooth, flowing passages or light trills, techniques used in many pieces such as Für Elise.

REGULATE THE TOUCH OF YOUR KEYBOARD INSTANTLY

While the weight of the CSP170 keys is fixed, the amount of pressure required to sound a note can be varied. With acoustic pianos this is an expensive and time consuming exercise that requires a Piano Technician. With your Yamaha CSP Clavinova you can adjust this yourself simply and quickly. At your fingertips are the following settings; Hard2, Hard1, Medium, Soft1, Soft2 or Fixed.

ESCAPEMENT FOR ULTIMATE REALISM

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. This mechanism produces a slight clicking sensation when the keys are pressed gently. Since Real Grand Expression offers players superb sound, touch and pedaling, Yamaha’s craftsmen have created an escapement that delivers outstanding playability, repetition and response without impeding performance.

The CSP Clavinova keyboards feature an escapement mechanism that reproduces this sensation near the bottom of the key dip and has 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.

SYNTHETIC IVORY AND EBONY KEYTOPS

Our fingers are more sensitive than we think and for pianists, the texture of the piano keys is extremely important. The NWX keyboard features white keys made from the highest quality proprietary synthetic ivory, developed independently by Yamaha’s R&D division for Yamaha’s Concert Grand Pianos. The black keys are finished in synthetic ebony. Synthetic ivory keytops reproduce the tactile surface of the real ivory keyboards once used in older acoustic pianos.

It features highly absorbent material that prevents fingers from slipping even after hours of practice, while retaining the ideal texture and feel. Resulting from well over a century of experience in making acoustic pianos, this exclusive Yamaha technology achieves a finish that feels natural and comfortable.
In addition to the feel, the appearance and 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 STABILISERS FOR IMPROVED KEYBOARD STABILITY AND DURABILITY

Keyboards fulfill the vital role of transforming emotion from your fingertips into sound and therefore, must be smooth to play in order to maintain superb touch for prolonged performances. The CSP170 features Keyboard Stabilisers for all 88 keys, offering players a natural touch and improving the stability and durability of the keyboard.

SOUND THAT TRULY RESONATES WITH THE LISTENER

In a Grand Piano, strings and sounds resonate throughout the entire body of the instrument producing a rich reverberation that envelops the listener in sound. Not only are the strings you are playing vibrating, but other strings ring as a reaction to ones you play. This is one reason the piano’s sound is so complex and rich.

This phenomenon is reproduced perfectly in the Clavinova through Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM) which calculates the various states of the strings for each of the 88 notes on the keyboard from one instant to the next. As a result, the Clavinova reflects the limitless number of factors inherent in playing an acoustic piano such as which keys are pressed, the strength with which the keys are played and pedal timing.

ACOUSTIC OPTIMISER

The speakers attached to the body exhibit a phenomenon in which, if nothing is done, the volume of the sound will increase due to the resonant frequency of the body. Conversely, installing pipes with the same resonant frequency within the body suppresses this resonance. Acoustic optimisers utilise this phenomenon.

This improvement of the sound is something that has only been possible thanks to Yamaha’s thorough knowledge of the internal acoustic characteristics of musical instruments.

YOUR OWN VOCAL HARMONIES

This is an incredible feature! It wasn’t that long ago that the processors capable of creating auto-harmonies cost thousands of dollars and were only found in the world’s best recording studios. Guess what? You have one right here! Simply plug in a dynamic microphone (we can help you with that), and you can sing along with your playing! The Vocal Harmony engine creates advanced sounding harmonies, enriching your voice and if necessary, is even capable of correcting your pitch!

You can also enjoy karaoke backing with songs stored in your Clavinova or downloaded from YamahaMusicsoft.com. The lyrics are shown on the Smart Pianist app and the words change color as the song advances, so you know exactly when to come in.

DIGITAL MULTI-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 16 tracks for simultaneous playback, so different hands can be recorded separately or overdub parts with different Voices.

*Recordings are made in MIDI format. They may also be recorded to the Smart Pianist App.

DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDER

The CSP170 also includes a Digital Audio Recorder. This device allows you to record performances to Smart Pianist App and create audio files* that you can save and play back on a Smart device.

WIFI CONNECTIVITY

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

FIVE YEAR WARRANTY

Buy with confidence when you purchase your new CSP170 Clavinova from southcoastmusic in the knowledge that you are covered by Yamaha Music Australia’s FIVE Year Warranty!

YAMAHA CSP170 SPECIFICATIONS

KEYBOARD

Number of Keys: 88
Keyboard Type: NWX Natural Wood
Keytops: Synthetic Ebony and Ivory
Click Mechanism: Escapement
Weight: Weighted
Variable Touch Response: Hard2, Hard1, Medium, Soft1, Soft2, Fixed

SOUNDS

Piano Sound: Yamaha CFX, Bosendorfer Imperial
Binaural Sampling: CFX Voice Only
Sound Enhancements: Key-Off Samples, Smooth Release, VRM
Maximum Polyphony: 256
Number of Voices: 695
Reverbs: 58
Master EQ: Five Preset, 1 User
IAC: Integrated
Stereophonic Optimiser: Integrated
Vocal Harmony: 44 Preset

FEATURED VOICES

VRM Voices: 14
Super Articulation Voices: 113
Natural Voices: 27
Sweet Voices: 27
Cool Voices: 63
Live Voices: 69
Organ Flues: 30
Drum/SFX Kits: 29

ACCOMPANIMENT STYLES

Preset Styles: 470
Pro Styles: 396
Session Styles: 34
Free Play Styles: 4
Pianist Styles: 36
Fingering: Chord Detection Area Full, Chord Detection Area Lower
Style Control: Intro x 1, Ending x 1, Main x 4, Fill In x 4

SONGS

Preset Songs: 403
Recording Tracks: 16
Playback Format: SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF
Recording Format: SMF (Format 0)

FUNCTIONS

Dual/Layer Keyboard: Integrated
Lesson/Guide: Correct Key, Any Key, Your Tempo
Guide Lamp: Stream Lights
Piano Room: Integrated
USB Playback: Smartphone Supported
USB Recording: WAV/AAC
USB Audio Effects: Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Melody Suppressor
Metronome: 5 to 500, Tap Tempo
Transpose: Minus 12, 0, Plus 12
Tuning: 414.8 – 440.0 – 466.8Hz
Scale Types: 9

GENERAL

Finish: Polished Ebony
Bench: Matching Bench Included
Internal Memory: Smart Device Dependent
USB Wireless LAN Adaptor: Included
USB Cable: USB Type A – USB Type B Included
USB Conversion Cable: USB Type B – USB Micro B / USB Type B – USB Type C Included
Amplifiers: 45W + 45W rms
Speakers: 2 x 16cm LF, 2 x 8cm HF
Pedals: 3
Power Supply: Yamaha PA-300C

INCLUDED ACCESSORIES