Yamaha Clavinova CVP-909 Grand Touch with Escapement - Polished Ebony

The experience of playing with a full backing band
Go beyond simply playing the piano. Instead of performing solo, you'll be backed by an ensemble of instruments. Created with our latest technology, the CVP-900 includes an array of Styles - or accompaniments - featuring authentic instrument Voices that perfectly match the key and timing of your performance.

An authentic grand piano experience
In the CVP-900 Series, tradition meets technology in every stroke of the keys. You'll enjoy nuanced tonal variations that respond to the way you play. True-to-life reproductions of keyboard and pedal feel. Even the acoustics heard and felt when playing a grand. The combination of these elements amounts to an authentic grand-piano experience.

Endless enjoyment from an extensive range of features
Connect a microphone and sing along as you play, follow along with built-in songs that are known around the world, connect to an app to record your performance, and so much more. The CVP Series comes packed with a variety of functions offering you endless ways to enjoy music.

AUTO BACKING STYLES
Equipped with 675 Styles that provide automatic accompaniment for your performance in a broad range of categories including pop, rock, country, jazz, soul, and latin. Enjoy playing by yourself with a backing band, or create arrangements in a variety of genres.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS VOICES
From breathy saxophones to ringing guitars and warm, resonant strings, the CVP Series features an impressive collection of natural instrument Voices. Thanks to acclaimed Super Articulation technology, the distinctive characteristics of each instrument are reproduced in incredible detail as you play.

A RANGE OF BUILT-IN POPULAR SONGS
Featuring 413 popular songs and classical pieces known around the world, CVP Series instruments even display the score while you perform. Guide lamps at the top of the keys will even show you which keys to play, making these instruments ideal for practice.

PIANO ROOM
In addition to allowing you to choose from a range of pianos, including both acoustic and electric instruments, the touch panel display lets you access different performance spaces such as halls and cathedrals, each with their own distinctive reverberation. Intuitive operation makes it easy to choose just the perfect piano sound for any piece.

SING ALONG WITH CLAVINOVA
Just connect a microphone to the CVP to enjoy singing along as you play. The CVP lets you enjoy performing, offering harmonies and choruses for your voice, and allowing you to select the preset song and cancel it out. For songs with built-in lyric data, you can download and install the Smart Pianist app on your smart devices to display lyrics, which change color as you play through the song to make it easy to know when you should start singing.

GRANDTOUCH™ KEYBOARD
Yamaha’s latest keyboard action features a broad dynamic range and faithful response to every nuance of touch that puts a wide expanse of tone—from delicate to bold—at the pianist’s fingertips. The highly consistent grand piano hammers replicate the pleasing response felt when the hammers strike the strings, enabling precise control of the tone. Highly absorbent synthetic-ivory white keys and synthetic-ebony black keys prevent slipping even during extended play and feel just like those of a grand piano.

GrandTouch™ Keyboard features wooden keys that showcase Yamaha’s expertise with wood for pianos. Just as with grand piano keyboards, the solid wood is cut from the very best parts of well-dried lumber, making the keys more resistant to warping than keyboards made of laminated wood. The wooden texture and structure of the keys create a more grand piano-like feel.

88-KEY LINEAR GRADED HAMMERS
Every single key on a grand piano keyboard is weighted differently. This is because the strings for each note are slightly thinner and shorter in the treble register, becoming thicker and longer towards the bass register. The 88-key Linear Graded Hammers of the Clavinova is the first-of-its-kind to faithfully duplicate this graded touch with differing weights and key return on each one of its keys. This results in a feel and response that is astonishingly like that of a grand piano, and allows players to gain an appreciation of a more authentic touch.

GRANDTOUCH™ PEDALS
GrandTouch™ Pedals offer the unique friction felt when using a grand piano pedal, heavy when pressed and light on the return. They also feature a mechanism with the fulcrum in a similar position to that on a grand piano, bringing the playing experience that much closer to a grand.

KEY COUNTERWEIGHTS
Counterweights are embedded in the keys of a grand piano to balance the weight of the hammers and offer more precise control when playing delicately at low volumes. The Clavinova features carefully adjusted counterweights for improved playability when playing pianissimo with a light touch, and better key return in rapid passages. The keyboard of the Clavinova has been fine-tuned to offer optimal balance, emphasizing its superb playability and grand piano response.

LEVERAGE ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
When playing a digital piano, the back area of the keys may prove to be a challenge to full musical expression. This is the same support length found on the Yamaha S3X premium grand piano*.

*As of April 2023.

YAMAHA CFX AND BÖSENDORFER IMPERIAL VOICES
Clavinova grand piano sounds are recorded from several world-renowned concert grand pianos. One of them is the CFX, Yamaha’s top-flight concert grand piano. Pianists around the world are enamored with the impressive, dazzling, richly expressive sound of the CFX in concert halls. Another sampled concert grand is the Imperial, the flagship model of Bösendorfer, a time-honored Viennese piano brand with an ardent following. The Imperial is known for its abundance of color and natural, warm feeling. Yamaha faithfully reproduces the idiosyncrasies of these concert grand pianos by carefully recording the entire tonal range of each of the 88 keys, making minute adjustments to capture the most harmonious tones each piano has to offer.

VIRTUAL RESONANCE MODELING
In a grand piano, sound resonates throughout the body of the instrument, producing a rich reverberation that envelops the listener in sound. This phenomena is reproduced perfectly in the Clavinova through Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM). It calculates the various states of the strings for each of the 88 notes on the keyboard, from one instant to the next, and timing and depth of damper pedals pressed. This technology allows for vivid, bright, richly-varied expression that reflects the limitless number of factors inherent in piano performance.

GREAT PIANO SOUND, EVEN WHEN USING HEADPHONES
Binaural sampling is a method of sampling in which special microphones are placed on a mannequin’s head in the same positions as the pianist’s ears to capture piano sounds the way that they sound in reality. We chose this method to create the ambience and full, natural resonance of acoustic pianos in Clavinova pianos. 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.

On CVP-900 Series pianos, binaural sampling was used for the Bösendorfer Imperial as well as the Yamaha CFX. Yamaha achieves higher-definition binaural sound with a specially developed mannequin head and model ears used for the recording. We also developed the Stereophonic Optimizer function to achieve the same effect for the piano effects. Stereophonic Optimizer technology replicates the natural diffusion of sound in headphones nearly as closely as binaural sampling for the piano voices other than the CFX and Imperial.

GRAND ACOUSTIC IMAGING
Yamaha's latest acoustic design and measurement technologies have been used to reproduce the sound field and imaging of a grand piano within the compact form of a digital instrument. The design focuses on the unique way that a grand piano radiates sound into the surrounding space, recreating the positional relationships heard in the sound of a grand piano with unerring accuracy. The CVP Series is designed to ensure that the piano sound stands out well when played as a solo instrument or when played together with accompanying Styles.

The monitor speakers to the left and right of the control panel deliver a powerful sound that help the player to feel like they are playing with a band.

3-WAY SPEAKER
This powerful 3-way system features mid and treble units, as well as bass speakers, which are available only on the CVP-909 and all units are optimally balanced and placed accordingly in the body to simulate the sound image of a grand piano.

SPRUCE CONE SPEAKER
Drawing from our experience in building both acoustic pianos and high-end speakers, the CVP-909 speaker cones use pulp from the same spruce wood used to make acoustic piano sound boards. The result is a more natural, piano-like attack to the sound that is more piano-like when you play the keys.