Yamaha CSP 255 PE Digital Piano Black High Gloss

Yamaha CSP 255 PE: Elegant Black High Gloss Digital Piano!

The Clavinova CSP-255 digital piano features Stream Lights for more fun playing and easy learning. It includes Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano sounds and offers a weighted GrandTouch-S keyboard with 88 keys for a piano-like playing feel. Additionally, the free Yamaha Smart Pianist app allows intuitive control of the instrument.

Play the songs you’ve always wanted to learn. The new Clavinova CSP series is a high-tech development packed with overwhelming features. Fulfill your dream of finally being able to play piano! With the Smart Pianist app, everyone discovers the joy of playing piano. This specially designed app offers a wide range of musical functions when connected to the CSP.

Intuitive, Easy Operation with the Yamaha Smart Pianist App

A Backing Band You Can Sing Along With

Let a dynamic band accompany you even when you play alone. The auto-accompaniment offers a large selection of genres that match your playing style. You can connect a microphone and use the harmony functions to create a background choir, even when singing solo.

Play Your Favorite Songs with the "Audio To Score" Function

Smart Pianist has an "Audio To Score" feature that automatically creates sheet music from songs on your smart device, so you can immediately play along with your favorite tunes.

Advanced Piano Playing Experience

The quality of the Clavinova series is a wonderful blend of over a century of acoustic piano craftsmanship and cutting-edge digital technology—all developed to provide you with the best playing experience. The CSP-200 series offers playability close to that of a grand piano, along with wonderfully expressive sound that inspires and motivates you to reach new musical heights.

Playability

Equipped with the latest GrandTouch/GrandTouch-S keyboards featuring a wide dynamic range and response on the level of a grand piano. Excellent consistency and nuanced expression give pianists maximum control over key touch.

GrandTouch-S Keyboard

Yamaha’s latest keyboard offers a broad dynamic range and realistic response to every nuance of key touch. Pianists can produce a wide variety of tones with their fingertips—from soft to powerful. The extremely durable piano hammers replicate the sensation pianists feel when hammers strike the strings, enabling precise tone control.

Highly absorbent white synthetic ivory keys and black synthetic ebony keys prevent slipping even during long performances and feel like those of a real grand piano.

The Sensitivity of a Piano

Grand Expression Modeling is a groundbreaking new technology that allows pianists to create the limitless tonal variations found only in grand pianos through their playing technique. The ability to vary the intensity and speed of keystrokes to produce different tones adds a new dimension to the joy of musical expression.

Grand Expression Modeling

The interaction and interplay of hammers, dampers, and strings inside a grand piano respond to the finest nuances of the pianist’s touch, creating an unlimited range of tonal expression. The touch refers to the pianist’s control not only over intensity (soft/loud) when pressing and releasing keys but also over the speed and depth with which keys are pressed. The Grand Expression Modeling introduced in the CSP-200 series translates these diverse articulation possibilities into the same limitless tonal variety of a grand piano.

This makes it possible to vary playing techniques by striking keys at different depths and speeds, even when using trills or legato playing or emphasizing the melody against the accompaniment.

Sound Quality

Virtual Resonance Modeling models in real time the elegant resonance created by the behavior of the strings and the instrument’s body—the foundation for the incomparable sound of a real grand piano. The latest acoustic design technology brings the sound and resonance of a concert grand piano into your home so you can fully enjoy it.

Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial Sounds

The Clavinova grand piano sounds were recorded from several world-renowned concert grands. One of them is the CFX, Yamaha’s flagship concert grand. Pianists worldwide are captivated by the impressive, powerful, and expressive sound of the CFX in concert halls. Another sampled concert grand is the Imperial, the flagship model of Bösendorfer, a venerable Viennese piano brand with a devoted following.

The Imperial is known for its rich tonal colors and natural, warm playing feel. Yamaha faithfully reproduces the characteristics of these concert grands by carefully recording the full tonal range of each of the 88 keys and making complex adjustments. This produces the most harmonious tones each instrument offers.

Binaural Sampling for Authentic Piano Sound, Even with Headphones

Binaural sampling is an advanced method where special microphones are placed on an artificial head at the same positions as a pianist’s ears. This method records piano sounds as they truly sound in reality.

We chose this technology to reproduce the atmosphere and complete natural resonance of acoustic pianos in Clavinova instruments. This gives pianists the feeling of sitting at a grand piano, even when playing with headphones. The experience is so pleasant that you forget you’re wearing headphones, no matter how long you play.

For the CSP-200 series pianos, binaural sampling was used for both the Bösendorfer Imperial and the Yamaha CFX grand. Yamaha achieves binaural sound in the highest resolution with a specially developed artificial head with ears used for recording.

Additionally, Yamaha developed the "Stereophonic Optimizer" function to achieve the same effect as real grand pianos. The Stereophonic Optimizer technology replicates the natural spread of different piano voices over headphones—almost as good as the binaural sampling of the CFX and Imperial.

Design Philosophy

Clavinova digital pianos stand out for excellent playability and versatile functions. All this combined with thoughtful, authentic design and a modern aesthetic that suits an instrument setting a contemporary standard for pianos. At the heart of the Clavinova design concept is the feeling the player has when sitting at a Clavinova.

Unnecessary elements have been removed from the player’s view to create a convincingly natural atmosphere that feels like sitting at an acoustic piano. A Clavinova digital piano is part of a player’s daily life—modern accents and color variations are available that fit perfectly into any interior and lifestyle.

Experience Music Anew with Yamaha’s CSP-200 Series!