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Description
Yamaha CLP-885 Clavinova Digital Piano
The new Yamaha CLP-885 Clavinova proudly represents this series as the Flagship Upright Digital Piano model. It boasts newly sampled voices of the CFX & Bosendorfer Imperial grand pianos, featuring binaural sound from these two world-renowned pianos.
It features 53 voices + 480 XG voices, including 2 fortepiano voices, improved VRM & Grand Expression Modelling. And to provide a realistic grand piano feel, the wooden key GrandTouch keyboard boasts Counterweighted Linear Graded Hammer keys with synthetic ebony & ivory keytops.
The Yamaha CLP-885 Clavinova also features a powerful stereo 3-way speaker system utilising Spruce Cone speakers & bidirectional horns, USB Audio Recorder, 20 rhythms & Smart Pianist app integration, making it a wonderfully featured digital piano.
- Upright piano design with fold down key lid
- New Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial piano samples, new Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer binaural sampling
- 53 Voices + 480 XG Voices + 14 Drum/SFX Kits, including 2 fortepiano voices (Mozart Piano/Chopin Piano)
- Improved VRM (Virtual Resonance Modeling)
- Grand Expression Modeling
- GrandTouch Linear Graded Hammer Wooden keyboard with synthetic ebony and ivory keytops
- 45w + 30w + 45w amplifiers (x2)
- 3-way Spruce Cone speaker system (16 cm + 8 cm with diffuser + 2.5 cm (dome) with Bidirectional Horn)
- USB Audio Recorder (Playback/Recording: WAV)
- 20 rhythms
- Bluetooth Audio & MIDI
- Smart Pianist App integration
“Real Grand Expression”: Sound, touch, pedals–perfectly integrated to give you the sensation of playing a grand piano.
The sound of some of the finest concert grand pianos in the world
VRM physical modelling – the distinctive reverberation generated by the entire body of a concert grand piano
Smooth tonal transformations perfectly matched to key pressure
Pianists can change the volume of the sound—as well as its dynamics—to achieve both mellow and bright tones by simply changing the pressure they apply to the keys.
From staccato to legato—superbly expressive sound that responds to the player’s touch
Featuring Yamaha Smooth Release technology, CLP-885 offers the crisp tone heard when playing staccato as well as the lingering sound produced by releasing the keys slowly. This provides a finely-nuanced response to the pianist’s playing.
256-note polyphony:
Play many notes simultaneously without any unwanted dropped notes.
Key-Off samples
Subtle changes occur in a grand piano’s tone the moment a pianist’s fingers are lifted from the keys. The damper being lowered onto the strings to mute its sound is what causes this. Key-Off samples features actual recordings of these changes, offering a faithful reproduction of the most subtle changes in the piano’s sound, allowing for a more realistic performance.
Superb playability and feel
GrandTouch linear graded hammer keyboard with Counterweighted Wooden Keys
Yamaha’s latest Linear Graded Hammer wooden keyboard action features a broad dynamic range and faithful response to every nuance of touch. This puts a wide expanse of tone—from delicate to bold—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.
Synthetic ivory keytops – a pleasure to play even after hours of performance
Escapement mechanism of Clavinova Keyboards
Keyboard Stabilizers—unique Yamaha mechanisms for improved keyboard stability and durability
Natural feel, even on the back-end of the keys
GrandTouch pedals
The pianist controls the pedals to add expression to the music, and makes frequent fine adjustments to how deeply they depress them in order to create the envisioned sound.
On a grand piano, pedaling requires more force when depressing the pedal, with the pedal feeling lighter on the return. This is because lifting a heavy damper requires more power than lowering it. GrandTouch pedals differ significantly from those in previous CLP Series pianos in that they replicate not only the resistance on the toes when the pedals are depressed, but also how that resistance lessens as the pianist returns the pedals to their original positions, a telltale physical property of grand piano pedals. This enables more precise pedaling and subtler changes in tonal expression, not only when depressing the pedals, but also by making it easier to hold the pedals in mid-stroke and control them as they slowly return to their original positions.
The CLP-885 also features a GP Response Damper that starts out light to the touch and grows heavier as it is depressed and the pedaling begins to take effect, just like on a grand piano. This gives players the physical feedback they need to master the delicate art of half-pedaling.
The mechanics of superior sound
Full-body resonance, just like an acoustic piano
Acoustic Optimizer—regulation to ensure a balanced tone
Yamaha‘s intimate knowledge of the internal acoustic characteristics of musical instruments is what makes this sound improvement possible.
Other features:
USB Audio Recorder
A fully immersive concert grand experience—even with headphones
You can simply choose the Yamaha CFX Grand Voice and put your headphones on. The binaural sampled sound is then automatically ready, with no additional settings required! Now with or without headphones, you can fully enjoy the concert grand experience at home.
The Stereophonic Optimizer—a new kind of headphone experience
Get more with the Smart Pianist App
If you use an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch you can enjoy your piano more with Yamaha’s Smart Pianist app. This app adds a beautiful graphic interface and a variety of incredible features to your Yamaha CLP-885 Clavinova digital piano.
