Yamaha applied 100 years' experience in crafting acoustic pianos to bring out the CVP Series, which, like all Clavinovas, are fine pianos in their own right. For unrivalled sonic realism there's Yamaha's Stereo Sampling AWM tone generation. As a further step towards providing the ultimate piano sound, CVP Series models also feature stereo samples of a specially selected Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand. Plus the GH (Graded Hammer effect) for incredibly natural touch response. Which adds up to more musical pleasure for the whole family. All from beautiful naturally finished instruments that perfectly complement any home environment.

For a new level of sonic versatility Yamaha offers a huge selection of over 800 voices. Besides incredibly realistic Piano voices and XG voices, these include new Sweet! Cool! and Natural! voices. With Sweet! voices, you can enjoy delicate nuances such as the vibrato of wind and brass instruments. Cool! voices reproduce the subtlest shades of sound found in classic amplified instruments such as electric guitars and electric pianos. Created with the latest technologies, Natural! voices use a huge amount of memory to assure incredibly faithful reproduction of instrument sounds.

You get a choice of built-in regular Pianist and Piano Combo accompaniment styles covering virtually any musical genre. What's more, each style has four variations, three intros and endings, four fill-ins and one break. Using these accompaniment styles lets everybody, even beginners, give complete accomplished solo performances.

The convenient Guide function provides lamps over the keyboard that light up to show you which notes to play. With Follow Lights everything you play is beautifully embellished by professional arrangements. What's more, you don't have to keep up with the recording, the recording literally plays along with you! This means the moment your Clavinova is delivered, everyone in the family can play – whether they've had 100 lessons or none at all.

All you have to do is press a button to find out what a CVP Clavinova has to offer. Once you read and hear the Voice, Style and Function demos, you'll want to sit down and start playing yourself. And don't worry about complex operations -there's also a handy Help function offering detailed explanations when required.

In addition to a superb musical instrument, CVP Clavinovas give you a 16-track digital recording studio. You can create complex performances one track at a time, using any of the voices available. For more accuracy, you can also perform step recording, entering notes one at a time. Once you've finished recording, you can save your efforts to the floppy disk drive.

This allows you to store complete set-ups of the Clavinova for instant recall whenever you need them. All it takes is the touch of a button to completely change the entire sound of the Clavinova – a handy feature for live performances. You can store your set-ups in the internal flash ROM or on a floppy disk.

For even more flexibility, you can assign any of the available functions, such as sostenuto and pitch bend, to a pedal of your choice.

No need for counting beats … let the Clavinova do it for you.

Music from different eras and cultures around the world is often based on different scales. With a CVP Clavinova, you can easily switch between Equal Temperament, Pure Major, Pure Minor, Pythagorean, Mean one, Werckmeister, Kirnerger and Arabic 1/2 scale tunings.