May 22 2010

Yamaha NP-30 Portable Grand Digital Piano

Yamaha NP-30 Lightweight Piano

The Yamaha NP-30 Portable Grand provides Yamaha’s digital piano sound and simplicity in its super slim design and minimal weight of 12 pounds makes it the most compact performer in the digital piano family of instruments. It includes a graded action is one of the primary features required by pianists in their digital instruments.

Yamaha NP-30 Portable Grand Piano

Yamaha NP-30 Portable Grand Piano

The new Graded Soft-Touch keyboard is the first of its kind bringing different levels of resistance without the extra weight of moving hammers. The key contributor to the NP-30′s fighting weight of only 12 pounds, results in a very playable action that will appeal to pianists who desire to take their music anywhere, and 6 AA batteries are needed to power up and start playing immediately. . The Yamaha’s NP-30 piano has a built-in metronome and even has multiple time signatures (3/4, 4/4, 6/8…) to opt from. The NP-30 includes a Dual Voice mode allows you to combine and play two Voices at once. You have to hold down the Voice Select button and choose the two you’d like to listen to for a selection of combinations. Read more »

May 14 2010

YPG-535 Portable Grand Keyboard

YPG-535 88 key

The Yamaha Portable Grand YPG-535 is a 88 key piano. It has a simple to use panel, a number of features including 88 piano-style keys, Graded Soft Touch (GST) action with different levels of resistance, high resolution stereo piano sample and appears with a gorgeous matching stand, PA-150 energy saving power adapter and sustain pedal.

Yamaha Portable Grand YPG-535

Yamaha Portable Grand YPG-535

The Yamaha YPG-535 can exhibit the score to a song whether it comes from the Internet, the internal selections or ones that you record yourself, and the pages scroll automatically when a song is played back. The Yamaha Portable Grand YPG-535 has 2 USB ports, one is “USB to host” and another is “USB to device”. This Portable Keyboard has 30 built-in songs plus 70 more on included CD-ROM to learn to play using the Yamaha Education Suite. These songs are separated into left and right hand parts, providing 7 levels of lessons plus a convenient chord dictionary. The YPG-535 carries Full Keyboard Mode which allows the player to play the keyboard like a real piano. The Yamaha Portable Piano YPG-535 delivers a built-in multi-track recorder to record one or multiple instrument parts at a time and assigns each part to a different track. It includes six tracks to accommodate sophisticated melodies, chord accompaniment and rhythm parts. The YPG-535 offers an wide range of nine, top-quality reverb effects that creates playing in everything from a small room to a large concert hall and four chorus effects that add richness to electric pianos and guitars in particular. Read more »