Yamaha Clavinova CLP865GP digital piano

Introducing the Yamaha Clavinova CLP865GP digital piano

A luxurious digital piano with the appearance of a grand piano cabinet, the CLP865GP features powerful 2-way speakers with diffusers and a superb GrandTouch-S keyboard offering unprecedented performance capability to pianists of all abilities.

Featuring a superbly realistic feel, the CLP-865 has 3 sensors in the keyboard, allowing you to repeat a note without going back to its initial position. You can also play a not without fully pressing the key, just as you would a grand piano.

Combining cutting edge technology with the elegance of a grand piano, the CLP965 is designed to provide an authentic playing experience with excellent features like CFX and Bösendorfer samples, 38 voices, 256-note polyphony and GrandTouch-S keyboard.

Digital never felt so grand

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.

GrandTouch-S pedals

The GrandTouch-S keys and pedals allow players to create the intended sound witht the same feel as a grand piano. The GrandTouch-S keyboard on CLP-800 series pianos are even more responsive than ever thanks to further optimisation of the weights of the hammers.

Capturing your expression

When playing a grand piano, the pianist infuses their performance with different types of expression, and the tone changes depending on different factors:

1. How hard or lightly the key is pressed: When the key is pressed hard and hits the bottom of the key bed, it produces a harder tone, and when it doesn’t it produces a soft sound.
2. How the key is released: When the key is released quickly the dampers fall quickly too and allow you to create a “marcato” sound, and when they are released slowly you can get a more “legato” sound, when layering them with subsequent notes.
3. Key repetition: When a key is played repeatedly, the vibration of the string is affected by each strike of the hammer, creating a unique sound.

Unleashing the perfect sound

The CLP-800 Series is equipped with a new tone generator chip developed by Yamaha, with higher computing power, that delivers the highest-quality, most beautiful piano voices to date. It features voices of two world-renowned concert grand pianos, the CFX, Yamaha’s top-flight concert grand piano, and the Bösendorfer Imperial, with its renowned Viennese sound.

Faithful sound across the range

To faithfully reproduce the idiosyncrasies of these concert grand pianos, Yamaha carefully recorded 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, played in the times of Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. And they now include the new “Chillout” and “Lo-Fi” pianos, ideal to play more contemporary music.

Better resonance with improved Virtual Resonance Modeling

CLP-800 Series pianos reproduce a richer, more natural resonance than ever before, thanks to its new tone generator chip paired with its ground-breaking technology, 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 pedalling.

Grand acoustic imaging - the most advanced speaker technology

While grand pianos amplify sound throughout its large soundboard and body, digital pianos amplify sound through its speakers. To overcome this structural limitation, applying the knowledge and techniques gained from over 120 years of acoustic piano manufacturing, Yamaha optimised the placement, orientation, and volume balance of the speakers in the low, mid, and high frequency ranges of the CLP-800 Series.

Yamaha also installed diffusers, waveguides, and Bidirectional Horns to take advantage of the indirect sound reflected from the walls and body of the piano to enhance the reverberation of the sound. These design features reproduce the reverberation and depth of natural sound in the surrounding space, creating a sound field close to that of a grand piano.

Benefits of the digital world

When using headphones, many people may find that their ears become fatigued if they play for too long. Binaural sampling solves this problem. In this sampling method, special microphones are placed on a mannequin’s head in the same position as the pianist’s ears, to capture the sounds the way that the pianist would hear them in reality. 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.

Connectivity and recording capabilities for convenience

Stream your favourite songs via Bluetooth to your piano and listen to them on the high-quality speakers of CLP Series pianos. You can even sit down and play along! Better still you can record yourself in audio or MIDI format via the Smart Pianist app or connecting a USB flash drive. You can then share your progress with anyone.

Get more with the Smart Pianist app

Enjoy the piano more with Smart Pianist, a dedicated app that adds a beautiful graphic interface and a variety of incredible features to your compatible Yamaha digital piano. The USB to host connection allows you to connect your device to your digital piano to benefit from the features of the Smart Pianist app.