YAMAHA CLAVINOVA CLP-845 PE (POLISH EBONY) DIGITAL PIANO

CLP-845 Clavinova Digital Piano | Polished Ebony Finish

The Clavinova CLP Series aims to replicate the sensations and experience of playing an acoustic grand piano on digital instruments by combining the latest digital technology with the craft of acoustic piano-making cultivated over more than 120 years.

Turn your living room into a performance venue for a top-flight grand piano
With resonance and tone variation similar to a grand piano, the CLP-800 Series allows you to enjoy a wide range of expression. The keyboard and pedals faithfully respond to the player’s touch to provide a feel close to that of a grand piano. A full lineup of colours ensures that your piano will match your interior design.

We recommend this model for:

• People who focus on sound quality and elements of feel such as touch and pedal response
• People who seek a simple piano
• Players of all skill levels

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Digital Never Felt So Grand
Digital never felt so grand. This phrase captures the identity of the Clavinova CLP Series. The defining features of the CLP Series are astoundingly advanced piano performance and sophistication as a single instrument that is able to accommodate a wide range of musical expression. Our mission is to convey the joy and pleasure of piano playing to more piano players by continuing to push the boundaries and make our digital pianos for the household market as close to grand pianos as possible.

The Joy of Playing Clavinova Pianos
People want to play grand pianos, but cannot because of restrictions at home. The Clavinova CLP Series solves this problem by delivering lush playing experiences similar to grand pianos. CLP Series pianos feature quality that meets the demands of high-level practice and playing and plenty of functions to make practice enjoyable and effective.

SOUND:

• CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial piano samples
• CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial Binaural sampling
• 2 forte piano Voices
• Improved VRM (Virtual Resonance Modelling)
• Improved Grand Expression modelling
• 256-note polyphony
• 38 Voices

TOUCH, PEDAL

• GrandTouch (TM)
• keyboard with synthetic ebony and ivory keytops(wood is used for the white keys)
• Escapement
• Touch (TM) pedals

AND MORE:

• 198 x 100 full dots LCD
• Touch Sensor Control Panel
• Dual / Split / Duo
• Digital effects (Reverb / Chorus / Brilliance / Effect)
• 23 Voice Demo Songs + 50 Piano Songs + 303 Lesson Songs
• 20 rhythms
• 16-track recording
• USB Audio Recorder (Playback / Recording: WAV)
• USB TO HOST and USB TO DEVICE
• Dual headphone jacks
• (45W + 45W) x 2 amplifiers (16 cm diffuser + 8 cm diffuser) x 2 speaker
• Speaker box
• Intelligent Acoustic Control (IAC)
• Stereophonic Optimizer
• Music rest clips
• Built-in Audio Bluetooth ® receiver / Bluetooth®MIDI
• Wireless connection to the Smart Pianist app

CLP-800 Series

What Is the Clavinova CLP Series?

The Clavinova CLP Series aims to replicate the sensations and experience of playing an acoustic grand piano on digital instruments by combining the latest digital technology with the craft of acoustic piano-making cultivated over more than 120 years.

Digital Never Felt So Grand

Digital never felt so grand. This phrase captures the identity of the Clavinova CLP Series. The defining features of the CLP Series are astoundingly advanced piano performance and sophistication as a single instrument that is able to accommodate a wide range of musical expression. Our mission is to convey the joy and pleasure of piano playing to more piano players by continuing to push the boundaries and make our digital pianos for the household market as close to grand pianos as possible.

Classical music is one of the most demanding musical genres in terms of expression. Grand pianos possess an almost limitless range of expressive capabilities, and so they are the instrument of choice among master classical pianists.

Our development of digital pianos is founded on more than an intimate knowledge of the grand pianos on which they are based, and goes further than simply imitating the shapes of these instruments. It must, because digital pianos have no strings, no hammers, and no soundboard; they produce sound in a completely different way from grand pianos. What we rely on, then, is our deep understanding of what it means to express oneself musically on a piano. In our pursuit of such a deep understanding, our thoughts turn to the sensitivities of pianists who are thrilled to express themselves on pianos, and we create instruments capable of harnessing their excitement and giving a voice to their expression.

The Clavinova playing experience has improved dramatically with each new model thanks to the wisdom and skills learned and passed down through generations of developers and reflected in the creation of the instruments. However, it is no easy task to replicate the experience of playing a grand piano with digital technology.

The intent behind the phrase “Digital Never Felt So Grand” is to highlight the quality of the experience of the digital pianos we sell now, which in the moment are as close to playing grand pianos as ever before. And Clavinova will continue to evolve so that the next model is even closer.

The Joy of Playing Clavinova Pianos

People want to play grand pianos, but cannot because of restrictions at home. The Clavinova CLP Series solves this problem by delivering lush playing experiences similar to grand pianos. CLP Series pianos feature quality that meets the demands of high-level practice and playing and plenty of functions to make practice enjoyable and effective.

The best way to learn to play the piano is to practice on a grand piano. Grand pianos allow an unlimited range of musical expression, so through serious practice, players naturally learn the skills it takes to draw out different kinds of expression and play what they envision. This is akin to having an unlimited palette of colours at hand for drawing or painting.

Practicing on Clavinova CLP Series pianos allows players to learn how the slightest variations in touch produce different tones just as they would on a grand piano, ultimately boosting their capacity for musical expression. Additionally, practice is exponentially more enjoyable with features unique to digital pianos, among them the ability to play with headphones and keep your surroundings quiet, record and play back your own playing with ease, explore the artistic intent of historical composers with fortepiano voices, and enjoy the wonderful feeling of playing in time with rhythms.

Piano players treasure the joy of expressing themselves to the fullest. We invite you to enjoy the lush experience of playing a CLP Series piano.

About CLP-800 Series

Turn your living room into a performance venue for a top-flight grand piano

With resonance and tone variation similar to a grand piano, the CLP-800 Series allows you to enjoy a wide range of expression. The keyboard and pedals faithfully respond to the player’s touch to provide a feel close to that of a grand piano. A full lineup of colors ensures that your piano will match your interior design.

We recommend this model for:

· People who focus on sound quality and elements of feel such as touch and pedal response

· People who seek a simple piano

· Players of all skill levels

Piano Quality

Countless features designed to replicate the subtlest nuances of grand pianos bring the true pleasure of grand piano playing to a wider audience.

A long lineup of the Voices piano players want

One of the best reasons to choose a Clavinova CLP-800 Series piano is access to multiple pianos on a single instrument, from world-class concert grand pianos to fortepianos for a more authentic classical music experience. The CLP-800 Series is equipped with a new tone generator chip developed by Yamaha that deliver our highest-quality, most beautiful piano voices to date.

Clavinova pianos feature voices of two world-renowned concert grand pianos. One of them is the CFX, Yamaha’s top-flight concert grand piano. Pianists around the world are enamoured with the impressive, dazzling, richly expressive sound of the CFX in concert halls. Another sampled concert grand is the Imperial, the flagship model of Bösendorfer, a time-honoured Viennese piano brand with an ardent following. The Imperial is known for its abundance of colour and natural, warm feeling. Yamaha faithfully reproduces the idiosyncrasies of these concert grand pianos by carefully recording the entire tonal range of each of the 88 keys, making minute adjustments to capture the most harmonious tones each piano has to offer.

CLP-800 Series pianos are also equipped with the voices of the fortepiano, the predecessor to the modern piano. The sounds emitted by a fortepiano are simpler than those of a modern piano, and decay much more rapidly. Hearing the sounds of the instruments played when the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin were composing their songs should illuminate the original intent behind the notes on the page. Here is a novel opportunity to communicate with historical composers by playing these period instruments.

The list of keyed instrument voices goes on to include electric pianos, organs, and more. A single CLP-800 Series piano is all you need to enjoy music from different eras and genres, from jazz and pop to healing music and 1980s classic rock.

The fortepianos shown in the picture are from the collections of at the Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments.

Experience the sensation of playing a living piano

The true pleasure of playing a grand piano is when the player can add expression to each and every note with total control over their touch and have the entire instrument respond by ringing out in full splendour.

Such a playing experience is created by the complex interaction of the 8,000 parts that make up the instrument; Clavinova CLP Series pianos replicate these physical phenomena with the help of Grand Expression Modelling and Virtual Resonance Modelling (VRM), two of Yamaha’s proprietary digital technologies to be explained later.

Players can experience the effects of Grand Expression Modelling by playing a song on a CLP-800 Series piano. For example, playing the many fast passages in Mozart’s “Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major”—a piece familiar to piano students—with the same light touch as you would on a grand piano results in a rolling, light-hearted tone, yet each note is clearly distinct from the others. When the same note is played repeatedly with the damper pedal down to sustain the sound, these pianos replicate the natural tonal variation produced by the physical phenomena in grand pianos by simulating the way the hammers strike strings that are already vibrating. This allows the player to add expression to repeated notes as if they were practicing on a grand piano, a useful option in places like the development of Beethoven’s “Für Elise.”

Pianists can vary the output by playing the keys to different depths and with different speeds, even when using techniques such as trills or legato or emphasizing the melody over the accompaniment. Grand Expression Modeling excels at faithfully reproducing the output expected of these techniques in many well-known songs. In Debussy’s “Clair de Lune,” a loose touch creates the faint tone that makes the melody stand out more crisply. In Liszt’s “Un Sospiro,” the accompanying arpeggios accent the melody without overwhelming it, and varied expression of the melody gives it the same quality as vocals. In the last of the Chopin nocturnes, trills, legato, and other delicate techniques where fingers seem to float over the keys deliver the airy, smooth tonal expression required. Playing such pieces on a highly expressive piano helps the pianist learn various techniques and experience the same joy of expression as a painter, but through sound.

In CLP Series pianos, VRM also replicates the momentary dynamics and deep resonance that are produced by the entire body of a grand piano. With CLP Series pianos, we invite you to enjoy a lush playing experience that is as close as it gets to a grand piano.

Enveloped in textured, clear, grand piano-like sound

When a pianist plays a grand piano, they cause the entire body of the instrument to reverberate, and become enveloped in the colorful tones created from the combination of various acoustic elements in the air around them. The pianist becomes immersed in the diffusing sound and reverberation. CLP-800 Series pianos deliver this pleasant feeling through Grand Acoustic Imaging (to be explained later) and other distinct acoustic technologies. Moreover, a new tone generator chip allows fine-tuning and control of the sonic elements of each frequency band, dramatically improving the precision of sound design.

The concept behind the acoustic design of the CLP-800 Series is to cause sound to radiate into the surrounding space as widely as it does from grand pianos. For example, the CLP-865GP/845/835/825 feature diffusers—a special mechanism for diffusing sound. The higher-end CLP-895GP/885/875 models replicate the rich grand piano sound with diffusers in addition to waveguides, Bidirectional Horns and cleverly placed and oriented speakers. These design features allow players to feel the sensations of the sound filling the entire space, the hammers striking the strings in front of them, and the reverberation dissipating into the edges of the space (Grand Acoustic Imaging).

Each model in the CLP-800 Series features the best acoustic design for its case—no matter which model you play, you will be enveloped by a natural, pleasant sound with harmonic balance from bass to treble.

Keys and pedals that allow players to create the intended sound with the same feel as a grand piano

The keys and pedals are the interface between player and instrument. The keys and pedals of CLP Series pianos are designed to feel as similar to their grand piano counterparts as possible, so that the way they behave in response to input from the fingers and toes perfectly matches the resulting sound output.

GrandTouch/GrandTouch-S keys

The GrandTouch and GrandTouch-S keyboards were designed around the concept of “a keyboard with the feel of a grand piano action,” with the goal of allowing pianists to feel the keyboard with their fingertips in the same way as they would when playing a grand piano, and from there to create exactly the sound that they are looking for. Specifically, these keyboards are notable for their responsiveness, offering everything from light, delicately nuanced tones to boldly powerful notes in answer to the strength with which the pianist plays the keys. They replicate the pleasing response felt when the grand piano hammers strike the string, and are free of any wobble when pressed to their fullest extent. 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.

The GrandTouch keyboards equipping the top models in the CLP Series feature the longest-ever pivot length on a Yamaha digital piano, ensuring that the keys are easy to play from the edge to the back. Finally, Yamaha’s 88-key Linear Graded Hammers are the only* digital piano technology that provide a distinct touch for each key with the same weight and return for the corresponding key on a grand piano.

The GrandTouch-S keyboards on CLP-800 Series pianos are even more responsive than ever thanks to further optimization of the weights of the hammers.

Acoustic piano-like appearance

Among the myriad other design considerations, we have also deeply examined the relationship between the piano playing experience and the design of the instrument. Specifically, while our top-end Clavinova CLP-800 Series of digital pianos is modeled after grand pianos in terms of appearance, the playing experience is also designed so that players unquestioningly feel the natural sensations of playing grand pianos from the moment they sit down at the piano to the moment they finish playing and stand up.

This iteration of the CLP-800 Series features many gentle curves in the shape of the body to give the pianos a feeling of warmth and openness. Sitting in between the sweeping curves of the side arms of a CLP-875, for example, gives you the strong impression that you are playing a grand piano. The wide music stand integrated into the instrument is not only unobtrusive to the player’s dialogue with the music, but also highly functional, capable of holding several sheets spread out.

The LED display of the control panel of the higher-end models is designed to turn off except when the player is changing settings so that it looks like an unassuming keyblock in the player’s field of vision while they are playing. Simply eliminating unnecessary elements from the player’s field of vision allows them to become immersed in piano playing.

Sound so good that you forget you’re wearing headphones

ne advantage of choosing a digital piano is that you can play with headphones on to keep your surroundings quiet. However, many people may find that their ears become fatigued if they play with headphones on for too long. One of the main reasons for this is that sound played directly into the ears is completely different from the natural sound of an actual piano.

Binaural sampling solves this problem. This is a method of sampling in which special microphones are placed on a mannequin’s head in the same positions as the pianist’s ears to capture piano sounds the way that they sound in reality. We chose this method to create the ambience and full, natural resonance of acoustic pianos in Clavinova pianos. This makes pianists feel as though they are sitting at a grand piano even when they play with headphones on. The experience is so pleasant that they forget they are wearing headphones, no matter how long they continue to play. On the CLP-800 Series*, binaural sampling was used for the Bösendorfer Imperial as well as the Yamaha CFX.

We also developed the Stereophonic Optimizer function to achieve the same effect for the piano effects. Stereophonic Optimizer technology replicates the natural diffusion of sound in headphones nearly as closely as binaural sampling for the piano voices other than the CFX and Imperial.

*Binaural sampling of the Bösendorfer Imperial is not included on the CLP-825.

A variety of supportive functions and options for piano practice

CLP Series pianos feature 50 of the most famous classical pieces as well as 303 exercises by Hanon, Beyer, Czerny, and Burgmüller. Sheet music is also available for download and viewing on the Smart Pianist app. Try practicing with one hand at a time, or simply listen and enjoy.

The CLP-800 Series is also compatible with the FC35 optional three-pedal unit, which functions as an auxiliary pedal for small children to practice pedalling. Simply place the FC35 on a suitable stand* or otherwise adjust it so that it sits in a position appropriate for your child’s height.

*When placing the product on a stand, make sure that the stand is sufficiently large, flat and stable to prevent the pedals from wobbling or falling when they are pressed.

Get more with the Smart Pianist app

Smart Pianist is a free application for use with Yamaha digital pianos/hybrid pianos that can create song data from PDF scores and then play it back, as well as analyze song data stored in your smart device and display chord progressions or piano accompaniment scores. The Bluetooth® MIDI function* of the CLP-800 Series lets you connect to Smart Pianist wirelessly.

Combining Smart Pianist with a CLP-800 Series makes it easier to enjoy playing the songs you want to play and increases your performance repertoire.

*Availability of Bluetooth MIDI varies by country.

Use Bluetooth® to listen to music on the high-quality speakers of CLP Series pianos

You can play music through the audio system on the CLP-800 Series* by using a Bluetooth-enabled smart device. You can stream audio data such as mp3 files, and even enjoy playing along with any songs on your smart device.

*Availability of Bluetooth audio varies by country.

Enjoy playing along with dynamic rhythm playback

The CLP-800 Series comes complete with 20 different and simple rhythm patterns* (drums and bass accompaniment) that are perfectly suited to many types of music, letting you spice up your performance with some backing musicians, make practice more interesting, or open up your creative flow with inspiring new ideas.

*The rhythm function is not included on the CLP-825.

High-quality recordings of your own playing with ease

The CLP-800 Series offers a variety of ways for you to record your favorite performances, described below.

Multi-track MIDI Song Recorder

The recording function featured in the CLP-800 Series 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 and can also be saved on a USB flash drive. Compatible software is required for playback of recorded data on a computer.

**CLP-825 features a 2-track song recorder.

Recording to the Smart Pianist app

You can record your performance in Audio or MIDI format. The recorded data is saved to the smart device. When the piano is connected to Smart Pianist via Bluetooth MIDI, only MIDI recording is possible.

USB Audio Recorder

Insert a USB flash drive into the USB [TO DEVICE] terminal to record performances to the drive and create audio files*** to save and play back on a computer or share with friends.

***Data is saved in WAV format.

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