Yamaha CVP-409GP Clavinova Mini-Grand Style Piano - Yamaha

A Grand Inspiration
The world’s most innovative and technologically advanced digital piano line now offers a luxurious, mini-grand piano style cabinet option. The cabinet's gorgeous, polished ebony finish is complemented by the CVP409GP's Synthetic Ivory key tops, which create a more authentic feel to the keys. Every bit as beautiful as it sounds, the Clavinova radiates the dignified, commanding presence of a grand piano with its solid, finely finished cabinetry. The Polished Ebony finish recreates the formal elegance and high-class appearance of a concert grand

Realistic Soundboard
Rich sound with a depth only possible from a grand piano. Speakers under the soundboard provide realistic, deeply resonant sound. Like a grand piano, the CVP409GP is designed so that if it is played with lid up, the reverberating echoes produce a richer sound texture.

Real grand piano key touch and response
The Natural Wood keyboard uses real-wood white keys to reproduce as closely as possible the experience of playing an actual grand piano-including the authentic touch and feel of the keys, the weight balance between key and hammer, and the weight gradation between low and high keys. This specially crafted keyboard lets you use techniques possible only on real grand pianos, such as having successive notes blend smoothly even without pressing the damper pedal, or playing the same key repeatedly and quickly with perfectly natural articulation. The CVP409GP also has Synthetic Ivory key tops that feature a soft and slightly porous surface, giving the keys added grip and a natural friction for improved ease in playing.

Record your performance – and singing!
The USB Audio Recorder features let you record your performance as audio data directly to a USB storage device (such as a thumb drive or memory stick). In addition to your keyboard playing, you can connect a microphone or guitar to record your singing voice or another instrument. Naturally, you can use the Style parts of the instrument or even songs you've recorded with the built-in 16-track MIDI recorder to accompany your performance. Bring the USB storage device to your computer and share your recordings with your friends via e-mail, record your own CDs, or upload the audio to websites for many others to enjoy.

Authentic accompaniment for your performance – Styles
The newly improved auto accompaniment Styles of the CVP make music so much more enjoyable and open up a whole new world of performance possibilities. The wide range of Styles include dynamic backing band parts for pop, R&B, rock, Latin, jazz, movie music and classical – letting you play like a pro, in absolutely every genre. The authentic accompaniment of these Styles has been meticulously crafted by top musicians worldwide and refined by pro studio engineers for the best possible quality. Moreover, these Styles utilize the ultra-realistic Super Articulation Voices and Mega Voices to create the most authentic and dynamic accompaniment you've ever heard.

Super Articulation Voices
This innovative Voice technology from Yamaha takes your keyboard playing to a completely new level of sonic realism and expressiveness. Featuring a variety of realistic acoustic instruments and incorporating the unique performance characteristics of each instrument, these Super Articulation Voices are perfect for playing solo passages and melodies. When you play, the Super Articulation technology monitors your playing and changes the sound accordingly – for amazingly natural and expressive sound. For example, when you play the Tenor Sax Voice in legato, the melody sounds smoothly with faint key noises. Or when you play the Acoustic Guitar Voice, realistic guitar playing techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides are blended into your performance– not at random, but based intelligently on the pitch intervals of your playing.

Discover a new world of music online!
Connect to the Internet – right from your Clavinova
Use your Clavinova to log onto Yamaha's special IDC website – without a computer! With the Internet Direct Connection (IDC) service, you can access the Internet right from the LCD display of the instrument and directly download styles or song files from our site. Once they're downloaded, you can immediately play these style and song files on your Clavinova! All you need is an appropriate high-speed Internet connection (not dial-up) and you will have full access to the convenient Internet Direct Connection services.

CVP409GP
* Polished Ebony
* 88-key NW (Natural Wood) with Synthetic Ivory key tops
(wood is used for the white keys)
* 640 x 480 dots VGA color 7.8 inch LCD
* Music Score, Lyrics, and text display function
* 6 Languages (English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian)
* Customizable wallpaper (display background)
* 4-step Dynamic Stereo Sampling AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) tone
generation with Stereo Sustain samples, Key-Off samples, and String
Resonance
* 50 Sampling Banks
* 128 + 128-note polyphony
* 368 Regular Voices
* 18 Mega Voices
* 38 Natural! Voices
* 38 S. Articulation! Voices
* 23 Sweet! Voices
* 39 Cool! Voices
* 56 Live! Voices
* 10 Organ Flutes! Voices
* Sound Creator
* XG
* GM2 / GS (Playback)
* Disk Orchestra
* Digital Effects (Reverb / Chorus / DSP 1-6)
* Master EQ + Part EQ
* Master Compressor
* Vocal Harmony
* 408 Accompaniment Styles
* 334 Pro Styles
* 38 Session Styles
* 36 Pianist Styles
* Style Creator
* OTS (One Touch Setting)
* Music Finder (Max. 2500 records)
* 120 preset songs (Song Book)
* Guide Function
* Guide Lamps
* Performance assistant technology
* 16-track recording
* USB Audio Recorder
* PIANO RESET button for instant piano set-up
* Direct Access Button
* Registration Memory
* Internet Direct Connection
* Metronome
* iAFC
* 60W x 2 + 20W x 2 amplifier / (16 cm + 5 cm + 3 cm (dome)) x 2 + 10 cm x 2
speaker system
* USB to HOST & USB to Device (2)
* RGB OUT jack
* Video out jack
* Dual headphone jacks
* Mic jack
* LAN port
* MIDI (THRU, OUT IN), AUX IN, AUX OUT
* Three foot pedals
* Music clips
* Headphone Hanger