Announcing The Hybrid YAMAHA SILENT PIANO One Keyboard - Three Pianos Superb Acoustic Piano, MIDI Controller, and/or State of the Art Digital Piano
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A SILENT Piano...With STRINGS?
Simply plug in your headphones for private practice that only you can hear. Play away any hour of the day or night with the touch response and tone of the world's greatest piano. Unplug the hedphones, and hear the natural beauty of the worlds greatest acoustic piano. Only from Yamaha.
The YAMAHA SILENT PIANO is also a DIGITAL Piano...With STRINGS!
Add a small powered monitor speaker, and experience the tone and volume of the Yamaha CFIIIS 9' Concert Grand. Your ears hear the beauty of a fine Acoustic Piano combined with the growling bass and the sparkling highs of the world's greatest concert grand. Plug into any state of the art keyboard or synthesizer and you have a seemingly infinite array of violins, horns, organs, choirs, with or with out acoustic piano, at your finger tips. With the Silent vertical Piano many of those sounds are included. Imagine the possibilities. As a hybrid Piano, Plug into your sound system and the audience hears the sound of the 9' Yamaha CFIIIS concert Grand in the most ideal setting, instead of the feedback, piano trap work noise, and the compromised tone of microphones.
CLICK on above Logo for a video presentation of YAMAHA's hybrid SILENT/MIDI PIANO shown at 2008 National Association of Music Merchants trade show (NAMM).
One of FRED MYERS' installations at MADISON PARK CHURCH Of GOD Anderson, Indiana YAMAHA 7'6" MPC7 with Motiff Rack ES synthsizer
Yamaha MIDIPiano MPC2 5'8" Grand, Yamaha Tyros2 Professional Workstation.
Madison Park Church Worship Arts Pastor Steve Williamson and YAMAHA MIDIPiano MPC7 7'6" Grand with YAMAHA Motif Rack ES synthesizer
YAMAHA Hybrid Piano MPC2 in Concert THREE 21st Century Pianos in ONE
Left picture looks like One Yamaha Grand Piano, BUT you will hear THREE pianos from this hybrid state of the art YAMAHA MIDIPiano MPC2! You most likely haven't heard anything like this before! First: a fine Yamaha Conservatoire Acoustic 5'8" Grand Piano. Secondly: A Yamaha CFIIIS 9' Concert Grand digital piano which is controlled by fiber optic sensors. Third: An 88 note MIDI controller connected to the Yamaha TYROS2 Professional Workstation. Wait until you hear this ensemble through our organ chamber speakers!
You will be thrilled to hear the MP3 file below provided by Madison Park Church in Anderson, IN. Their YAMAHA MIDIPiano MPC7 with Yamaha Motif Rack ES synthesizer are featured in Yamaha's FALL 2007 Accent Magazine! You may find it hard to believe you are hearing only ONE Keyboardist at ONE instrument - the YAMAHA MIDIPiano -
Click on the picture for Yamaha Accent Online, Select Fall 2007 Vol 67, TOC, Page 23
The YAMAHA SLIENT PIANO is an ACOUSTIC Piano...With STRINGS!
The Yamaha MIDI Piano is an Acoustic Piano. You play it just as you would any fine piano.
The digital interface employs the latest fiber optics, giving full freedom of movement to the natural touch of the best piano.
Acoustic and Digital in One
To let you keep your music to yourself
The traditional upright or grand piano is an instrument without peer for music study and education, performance, accompaniment, and general enjoyment. However, the same rich, powerful sound that makes these instruments so appealing can be a real drawback in certain situations—when family or neighbors are sleeping or engaged in other activities, for example, or when several pianos are being used in close proximity to one another.
Yamaha Silent Piano™—first of a new breed
The Yamaha Silent Piano pioneered a whole new concept in digital/acoustic hybrids. By allowing the pianist to choose between acoustic and digital performance, they have overcome the obstacles of time and place that limit the use of a conventional piano.
In normal play, a Silent Piano instrument is nothing less than a traditional Yamaha piano—utterly unaffected by the added electronic components.
When privacy is preferable, the pianist can simply put on the headphones and switch to digital sound—with amazingly lifelike tonal reproduction and the control of a traditional piano keyboard—continuing to play without intruding on, or being disturbed by, the activities of others nearby.
Extending your opportunities for musical enjoyment
In the home With a Silent Piano, the activities of family members and guests need not interfere with your ability to play. You can continue to play while others read, converse, listen to recorded music, or watch TV—right in the same room via headphones.
With neighbors nearby The sound of an acoustic piano can travel through open windows and doors—even through ceilings, walls, and floors—to neighboring apartments, homes, or offices. With a Silent Piano you need not worry; just slip on the headphones and play for hours—even practice scales—without disturbing the neighbors.
After hours Musical inspiration may not always come at the most convenient time. You might want to jump out of bed to capture a tune that's just come into your head. Or perhaps you simply keep later hours than others in the household or neighborhood. Again, with the Silent Piano… no problem. You can play, as loudly as you like, at any time of the day or night without anyone else hearing a sound.
For 'private' lessons The same restrictions of time and place—close neighbors, poor sound insulation, early morning or late night hours—can apply to teachers and students. With a Silent Piano, you can teach and learn whenever it's most convenient. Dual headphone jacks allow the teacher to monitor the performance or to join in two- or four-hand duets.
When there are more than one The ability to play in virtual privacy makes Silent Piano an ideal solution for practice halls or other institutional applications. A number of pianos and pianists can share the same room without interfering with each other. It's like having individual practice chambers on demand for each and every pianist.
The best of both worlds—acoustic and digital—in a single instrument
Yamaha Silent Piano™ gives you the incomparable tone, touch, and beauty of a fine traditional piano along with all the added advantages of a superb digital piano.
The Quick Silent Piano System combines a hammer restraint mechanism with optical fiber sensors and digital tone generation. A shift of the center pedal stops the hammers from striking the strings, outwardly silencing the piano, while the sensors and tone generator then digitally reproduce the acoustic piano sound.
System activation
A hammer shank stopper, operated by the center pedal, silences the acoustic sound.
An electronic control unit, with power switch and pilot lamp, headphone jacks, and volume and reverb controls, is attached below the right side of the keyboard.
Normal play (left photo) and Silent Piano mode engaged (right photo)
Simple, center pedal operation
Optical key sensors
Optical key sensors
Individual optical fiber sensors, located beneath the inner end of each key, capture the precise motion of the keys for Silent Piano mode digital tone generation reproduction.
Continuous-position sensors accurately register keystroke force and timing.
Real-time keystroke information is instantly transmitted to the tone generator.
Non-mechanical, optical operation leaves key touch and motion unaffected.
Pedal sensors
A continuous sensor for the sustain pedal allows precise half-pedaling control.
An on/off sensor registers the action of the soft pedal.
Digital tone generation
AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) stereo sampling from the Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand provides rich, realistic digital sound for Silent Piano mode piano performance.
Three selectable reverb effects with continuous depth control simulate chamber and hall acoustics for an enhanced sense of spatial realism.
Continuous volume control allows the pianist to adjust headphone volume levels.
Adjustable pitch makes it possible to play along with MIDI or audio accompaniment.
Versatile connections
Dual headphone jacks on the face of the control unit allow two people to play, or one to listen in—great for duets, teaching, or private serenades.
MIDI In and MIDI Out terminals let you control other electronic music devices from the piano keyboard or access the digital piano sound from external equipment like sequencers or computers.
AUX In and AUX Out terminals make it possible to play along with recorded music through the headphones and to amplify or record the piano's digital performance.
Control unit (U1-Silent, M112T-Silent, and U1J-Silent)
