Yamaha CSP-255 Clavinova Digital

Experience Excellence
The CSP-255 teaches anyone how to play their favorite songs from the music library already on their smart device. Stream Lights move towards each key to show users which notes to play and when. Based on their skill level, users can adjust the speed at which they’re learning and the difficulty of the piano arrangement as they improve.

Experience Full Control with Smart Pianist
With the Yamaha Smart Pianist app, you have full control over your instrument using your smart device. Easily choose from a wide range of instrument sounds and switch between various virtual performance spaces, such as a concert hall or cathedral, enhancing your acoustic environment.

*The app is available at the App Store and Google Play.

Play Even if You Can’t Read Music
Stream Lights guide you as you effortlessly follow musical notes and their timing with four LED lights moving towards the keys, ensuring accurate and synchronized playing as you learn your favorite songs. Use the Guide function to pause the song until you play the correct keys, helping you learn easily.

Explore a Library of Songs and Add Your Own
The Clavinova CSP-200 Series features a wide range of songs, from popular and classical tunes to practice exercises. Easily access sheet music through the Yamaha Smart Pianist app and use Stream Lights to help guide your practice sessions. Additionally, add your favorite songs to your collection through Smart Pianist.

Instantly Play Your Favorite Tunes with Audio-To-Score
When you want to play a song, but don’t know where to begin or what to do, use the Audio-to-Score feature in the Smart Pianist App. Audio-to-Score analyzes MP3s and other audio song data and creates chord charts with over 50 varieties of accompaniment to suit your playing level. All you have to do is follow the Stream Lights.

Add Variety to Your Performances
The Clavinova CSP-200 Series offers a wide range of instrument Voices for expressive musical performance. The CSP Series Style content provides lively accompaniment for various genres, allowing for total control over your own virtual backing band.

Exceptional Playing Experience
The Clavinova combines over a century of acoustic piano-making expertise with the latest digital technology – all designed to give you an unparalleled playing experience. With a playability that approaches that of a grand piano, as well as beautifully expressive sound, the CSP-200 Series will inspire and motivate you to reach even greater musical heights.

Playability
Featuring the latest GrandTouch™/GrandTouch-S™ keyboards with a broad dynamic range of touch and response on the level of a grand piano. Excellent consistency and nuanced expression give you the utmost control over touch.

Sensitivity
Thanks to Grand Expression Modeling, our groundbreaking new technology, you’ll experience limitless tonal variations. Any variation in the intensity and speed of your touch, and you’ll hear a nuanced difference in tone, one that’s almost identical to a grand piano.

Sound Quality
Virtual Resonance Modeling performs real-time reproductions of the resonance created by the strings and body of the instrument – which are the foundation of a grand piano’s beautiful sound. Combined with the latest acoustic design technology, you’ll enjoy stunningly lifelike concert grand piano tone and feel.

GrandTouch-S™ Keyboard
Our latest keyboard 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 your 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.

Design Philosophy
Clavinova pianos boast excellent playability and versatile functions, along with a refined, authentic design that blends a compact form with modern aesthetics in a manner befitting the instrument that sets the contemporary standard for pianos. At the heart of the design is the way the player feels when they take their seat in front of the instrument. Unnecessary elements are removed from your field of vision to create a convincingly natural space that feels just like sitting at an acoustic piano. And since the Clavinova will be part of your home, contemporary accents and color variation are available to mesh with any interior design or lifestyle.

The CSP-255 has a simple, stylish design that incorporates elegant piano-like curves and utilizes the absolute minimum set of controls.

Grand Expression Modeling
The interaction and interplay of the hammers, dampers, and strings inside a grand piano respond to the subtlest nuances of your touch, creating a limitless range of tonal expression. “Touch” refers to 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 CSP-200 Series translates the widely varied input from your 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,” for example, 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.

Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial Voices
Clavinova grand piano sounds are recorded from several world-renowned concert grand pianos. One of them is the CFX, our top-flight concert grand piano. Another sampled concert grand is the Imperial, the flagship model of Bösendorfer, a time-honored Viennese piano brand with an ardent following. The Imperial is known for its abundance of color 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.

Virtual Resonance Modeling
One of the allures of the grand piano is the sympathetic resonance created by the vibration of the entire instrument. Clavinova pianos elaborately reproduce this rich sympathetic resonance through a groundbreaking technology called Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM). VRM creates a richly varied sound by simulating the complex sympathetic tones created when the vibrations of the strings are propagated to the soundboard and other strings, corresponding to the timing and intensity of key playing and pedaling. CSP-200 Series pianos even replicate the sounds the dampers make when they are raised off the strings, in addition to the resonance of the duplex scaling, strings, soundboard, and case. Clavinova pianos allow you to enjoy the same momentary dynamics and deep sympathetic sounds that are produced by the entire body of a grand piano.

Binaural Sampling for Authentic Piano Sound, Even with Headphones
Binaural sampling is a groundbreaking method of simulating sound in which special microphones capture the piano the way it sounds in reality.  This helps to create the ambience and the full, natural resonance of acoustic pianos in Clavinova pianos, making you feel as though you’re are sitting at a grand piano, even with headphones on.  On CSP-200 Series pianos, 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.

Connect Wirelessly for Bluetooth® Audio
You can play music through the audio system on the CSP-200 Series* by using a Bluetooth-enabled smart device. You can also stream audio such as mp3s, as well as play along with your favorite songs on your smart device.

*Availability of Bluetooth audio varies by country.

Bluetooth® MIDI
This convenient wireless connection between the instrument and the Smart Pianist app (on your smart device) lets you fully focus on your playing and enjoy music without worrying about cables.

*Availability of Bluetooth MIDI varies by country.

USB Type C Connection
A USB cable (Type-C to Type-C) is included, and users who have a Smart Device with a Type-C terminal can conveniently connect the instrument to their smart device with a single cable.

*For users with Apple products equipped with a Lightning terminal, please use your genuine Apple USB-C to Lightning cable.

Microphone Connection
You can enjoy karaoke backing with songs stored in your Clavinova or downloaded on your smart device. The lyrics are shown on the Smart Pianist app, changing color as the song advances, so you know exactly when to come in.

Plug in a microphone, and you can sing along with your playing. The Vocal Harmony engine creates advanced sounding harmonies, enriching your voice. It’s even capable of correcting your pitch!

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 parts of the song can be recorded separately or overdubbed parts with different voices.

*Recordings are made in MIDI format, and can also be recorded to Smart Pianist App.