Yamaha CVP909PE Digital Piano, Polished Ebony

SOPHISTICATED PIANO PLAYING EXPERIENCE

The piano quality of the Clavinova is a marvelous combination of more than a century’s know-how, accumulated from our acoustic piano making, with the latest digital technology—all designed to give you the finest playing experience. The CVP-900 Series offers playability approaching that of a grand piano as well as beautifully expressive sound, inspiring you and motivating you to even greater musical heights.

PLAYABILITY
Featuring the latest GrandTouch™ Keyboards with a broad dynamic range of touch and response on the level of a grand piano. Excellent consistency and nuanced expression give the pianist the utmost control over touch.

GRANDTOUCH™ KEYBOARD

Yamaha’s latest keyboard action features a broad dynamic range and faithful response to every nuance of touch that 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.

GrandTouch™ Keyboard features wooden keys that showcase Yamaha’s expertise with wood for pianos. Just as with grand piano keyboards, the solid wood is cut from the very best parts of well-dried lumber, making the keys more resistant to warping than keyboards made of laminated wood. The wooden texture and structure of the keys create a more grand piano-like feel.

GRANDTOUCH™ PEDALS

GrandTouch™ Pedals offer the unique friction felt when using a grand piano pedal, heavy when pressed and light on the return. They also feature a mechanism with the fulcrum in a similar position to that on a grand piano, bringing the playing experience that much closer to a grand.

88-KEY LINEAR GRADED HAMMERS

Every single key on a grand piano keyboard is weighted differently. This is because the strings for each note are slightly thinner and shorter in the treble register, becoming thicker and longer towards the bass register. The 88-key Linear Graded Hammers of the Clavinova is the first-of-its-kind to faithfully duplicate this graded touch with differing weights and key return on each one of its keys. This results in a feel and response that is astonishingly like that of a grand piano, and allows players to gain an appreciation of a more authentic touch.

SENSITIVITY

Grand Expression Modeling is a groundbreaking new technology that enables pianists to use their techniques to produce the limitless tonal variation unique to grand pianos. The ability to vary the intensity and speed of touch to produce different tones adds another dimension to the joy of musical expression.

GRAND EXPRESSION MODELING

The interaction and interplay of the hammers, dampers, and strings inside a grand piano respond to the subtlest nuances of the pianist’s touch, creating a limitless range of tonal expression. Touch refers to the pianist’s control, not only of intensity (softness/loudness) in playing and releasing the keys, but also of the speed and depth with which the keys are pressed. The Grand Expression Modeling introduced in the CVP-900 Series translates the widely varied input from the pianist’s fingers into the same limitless tonal variation of a grand piano.

This makes it possible to 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.

SOUND QUALITY

Virtual Resonance Modeling performs real-time modeling of the sympathetic resonance created by the behavior of the strings and body of the instrument—the foundation of the beautiful sound of a genuine grand piano. Also, the latest acoustic design technology delivers lifelike concert grand piano tone and resonance to your home for you to enjoy.

Size/Weight

• Width: 1,426 mm (56-1/8") (Polished finish: 1,429 mm (56-1/4"))
• Height:  868 mm (34-3/16") (Polished finish: 871 mm (34-5/16"))
• Depth:  612 mm (24-1/8") (Polished finish: 612 mm (24-1/8"))
• Weight: 82 kg (180 lb, 12 oz) (Polished finish: 84 kg (185 lb, 3 oz))
• Packing Box
• Width:  1,567 mm (61-11/16")
• Height: 716 mm (28-3/16")
• Depth: 745 mm (29-5/16")

Control Interface

• Keyboard
• Number of Keys: 88
• Keyboard Type: GrandTouch Keyboard: wooden keys (white only), synthetic ebony and ivory key tops, escapement
• Touch Sensitivity Settings: Hard2, Hard1, Medium, Soft1, Soft2
• 88-key Linear Graded Hammers: Yes
• Counterweight: Yes

Pedal

• Number of Pedals: 3
• Half Pedal: Yes
• Grand Touch Pedals: Yes (with GP Response Damper)
• Functions: Sustain, Sostenuto, Soft, Glide, Song Play / Pause, Style Start / Stop, Volume, etc.

Display

• Display Type: TFT Colour LCD (Touch Screen)
• Display Size: 800 × 480 dots 9.0 inch
• LCD Brightness Control: Yes
• Touch Screen: Yes
• Colour Display: Yes
• Score Display Function: Yes
• Lyrics Display Function: Yes
• Text Viewer function: Yes
• Language Options: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese
• Panel Language: English

Cabinet

• Key Cover Style: Folding
• Music Rest Included: Yes
• Music Clips: Yes

Voices

• Piano Sounds: Yamaha CFX, Bösendorfer Imperial
• Binary Sampling: Yes (“CFX Concert Grand” and “Bösendorfer Grand” Voice only)
• Key-off Samples: Yes
• Smooth Release: Yes
• VRM: Yes
• Grand Expression Modelling: Yes
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• Polyphony Number of Polyphony(Max.): 256
• Preset Number of Voices: 1,605 Voices + 58 Drum/SFX Kits + 480 XG Voices
• Featured Voices: 17 VRM Voices, 36 Super Articulation2 voices, 301 Super Articulation Voices
• Custom Voice Edit: Yes
• Compatibility: XG, GS (for Song playback), GM, GM2

Effects

• Reverb: 65 Preset + 30 User
• Chorus: 107 Preset + 30 User
• Master Compressor: 5 Preset + 30 User
• Master EQ: 5 Preset + 30 User
• Part EQ: 27 Parts
• Intelligent Acoustic Control (IAC): Yes
• Stereophonic Optimizer: Yes
• Insertion Effect: 358 Preset + 30 User
• Variation Effect: 358 Preset + 30 User
• Vocal Harmony: 54 Preset + 60 User

Functions

• Dual/Layers: Yes
• Split: Yes

Accompaniment Styles

• Number of Preset Styles: 675
• Fingering Single: Finger, Fingered, Fingered On Bass, Multi Finger, AI Fingered, Full Keyboard, AI Full Keyboard
• Style Control: INTRO x 3, MAIN VARIATION x 4, FILL x 4, BREAK, ENDING x 3
• Custom Style Creator: Yes

Other Features

• Music Finder: Yes
• One Touch Setting (OTS): 4 for each Style
• Style Recommender: N/A
• Chord Looper: Yes
• File Format: Style File Format (SFF), Style File Format GE (SFF GE)

Songs

• Number of Preset Songs: 50 Classics + 303 Lesson Songs + 60 Popular

Recording

• Number of Tracks: 16
• Data Capacity: approx. 3MB / Song
• Recording Function: Yes
• Compatible Data Format Playback: SMF (Format 0 & 1), XF
• Compatible Data Format Recording: SMF (Format 0)

Functions

• Demo: Yes
• Registration Number of Buttons: 8
• Control: Registration Sequence, Freeze
• Playlist Number of records: 2,500

Lesson/Guide

• Lesson/Guide: Follow Lights, Any Key, Karao-Key, Your Tempo (with guide lamps)
• Guide Lamp: Yes
• Performance Assistant Technology (PAT): Yes
• Piano Room: Yes

USB Audio

• USB Audio Recorder Playback: WAV (44.1kHz, 16bit, stereo), MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3)
• USB Audio recorder Recording: WAV (44.1kHz, 16bit, stereo), MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3)
• USB Audio Time Stretch: Yes
• Pitch Shift: Yes
• Vocal Cancel: Yes

Miscellaneous

• Metronome: Yes
• Tempo Range: 5 – 500, Tap Tempo
• Transpose: ?12 – 0 – +12
• Tuning: 414.8 – 440 – 466.8 Hz (approx. 0.2 Hz increments)
• Scale Type: 9 Types
• Display Out: Yes (by using a commercially available USB display adaptor*)

Bluetooth

• Bluetooth: Yes (Audio)

Storage and Connectivity

• Internal Memory: approx. 2 GB
• External Drives: USB Flash Drive
• Headphones: Standard stereo phone jack x2
• Microphone: Mic/Line in (standard mono phone jack), Input volume
• MIDI: IN / OUT / THRU
• AUX IN: Stereo mini
• AUX OUT: L / L + R, R
• AUX Pedal: Yes
• USB TO DEVICE: Yes
• USB TO HOST: Yes

Amplifiers and Speakers

• Amplifiers: (40 W + 30 W + 20 W) × 2 +80 W
• Speakers: 16 cm + 5 cm + 2.5 cm (dome)) × 2 + 20 cm, Spruce Cone Speaker, Twisted Flare Port

Power Supply

• Power Consumption: 64 W

Accessories

• Headphones (HPH-150/HPH-100/HPH-50), Footswitches (FC4A/FC5), Foot controller (FC7), USB wireless LAN adaptor (UD-WL01)

*For a list of compatible devices, access the “Downloads”.