Yamaha CGP1000 Feature Demonstration | Bonners Piano Centre

[@nicklas9945]

You are just as skilled at playing the piano as you are at presenting the product in an understandable way.👌🏻

[@DTXGaming]

2:52 OK, that's a spaceship hidden in there 😁👍 Tony, you could make even a wooden board sound impressive. Really enjoying your demos.

[@Instrumental-Covers]

I am happy to see you have covered this piano in your channel. The CGP1000 was re-introduced in 2008. It was a hybrid piano with wooden keys and Clavinova CVP style, with a soundboard, plus a complex speaker system consisting of two separate stereo 60 watt amplifiers powering 8 speakers and the transducers for the soundboard. It took more than a decade for Kawai to try to emulate this hybrid piano, but in a much more modest format (an upright piano with half the power and 1/3 of the features, the NV5).

[@skylane1829]

Thank you for sharing that video. Cheers from the US!!!

[@madonobel]

Would you make tutorial on how to use dgx-670 styling features, thanks

[@lopezduron10]

How do you connected to the internet?

[@Zoco101]

It sounds good. It's refreshing to hear Yamaha again after all those muddy new Shigeru-sound pianos on various channels. How is the sound being recorded? Via lineout, I'm sure. A piano with lots of speakers should be heard via mics too. And the action? Please tell us something about that.

[@Instrumental-Covers]

The quality of the drums heard is an indicator that it has been recorded via lineout, otherwise it would sound more muffled with less sparkle and detail. This is what Yamaha says about the action: The CGP-1000 is one of a new breed of instruments that features a keyboard with the feel of real ivory. The special Natural Wood keyboard of the CGP-1000 uses real-wood white keys. The key surface is soft and slightly porous, giving the keys added grip and a natural friction that lets you play easily. The authentic touch and feel of the keys goes far beyond existing electronic keyboards, it makes you feel as if you’re playing a real grand piano. This specially crafted keyboard lets you use techniques only possible on grand pianos, such as playing the same note successively and having the sounds blend smoothly even without use of the damper pedal, or playing the same key quickly and having perfect articulation without the sound cutting off unnaturally.

[@Zoco101]

@@Instrumental-Covers if that is word for word what Yamaha says, I'm a bit disgusted. How can Yamaha contradict itself like this and bite the hand that feeds it? The text makes it sound like the other digital pianos made by Yamaha or anybody else are miserable fake pianos with unrealistic actions and only worthy of the name "electronic keyboard". They have used the stupid and inappropriate word "real" three times. Well, I discover that this is not a new model (maybe it was the first Yamaha hybrid) so perhaps Yamaha is more sober in its publicity now.

[@Instrumental-Covers]

@@Zoco101 The text is 13 years old, it was written back in 2008. They were not contradicting themselves. You are reading a piece of history, where digital pianos were much less advanced than they are now. So, they were not using an inappropriate word because at that time this 2008 piano was a big deal. Actually, Kawai uses the phrase "real" soundboard to refer to a piece of wood with a couple of transducers attached to a digital piano. That wooden resonator is not even close to be a real soundboard. Kawai uses an exaggerated publicity for their digital pianos, and call themselves "The Future of the Piano"... not exactly a sober publicity.

[@Zoco101]

@@Instrumental-Covers As old as that! Admittedly, there were fewer DPs in circulation then, though I got my first three DPs well before this millenium - all Yamahas. And my fourth DP is also a Yamaha. I think I got it 4 or 5 years ago. That is not to say that I wouldn't buy a Roland or a Casio. I'd even consider the Kawai MP-7SE because it's simply such good value. Yes in 2008, it might have been forgiveable to talk about "real" pianos, but now that DPs far outnumber acoustic pianos, for whatever reasons (they are the preferred piano choice by a wide margin) the expression is exceedingly dated. Anyway, thanks for informing/correcting me. It's useful to know how old this piano and its publicity are. I would agree that Kawais are over-hyped in the DP/hybrid community.

[@Instrumental-Covers]

@@Zoco101 I missed the chance to see one in person when they were available and Tony here has the best KZbin video available showcasing the instrument... I do remember having played several digital pianos of the Yamaha MODUS line, a high-end digital piano back in 2009, specifically the Modus F01, the Modus H01, and the Modus H11. They were the equivalent of the AvantGrand line today. I think their speaker system was quite advanced at that moment, and they sounded way better than anything budget-oriented.

[@sbutler860]

Looks to me like it's got a cracked screen, or marked in some way. x

[@Zoco101]

I didn't realise that it is an old model. So Yamaha has abandoned the soundboard project in hybrids?

[@Instrumental-Covers]

I think they have gone another route, which is the TransAcoustic pianos, which are like a "combo" piano, in the sense that you get a real acoustic piano which can be turned into a digital piano via transducers activating the soundboard. Previous generations of the soundboard technology from Yamaha needed additional speakers (similar to what Kawai is doing now with their wooden resonator on the back of the CA99/NV5S). But Yamaha now seems to be interested in making only a true soundboard system, with no additional speakers. It makes sense to produce a hybrid piano that doesn't need additional speakers, so you can really say you have a true soundboard, rather than a wooden resonator that only reproduces the lower frequencies and need speakers and tweeters to complete the sound (Kawai's style).

[@lisakerr4720]

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