<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -.25in; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; background: white;"><!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; color: #444444;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">&middot;<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;">Yamaha&rsquo;s latest keyboard action features a broad dynamic range and faithful response to every nuance of touch that puts a wide expanse of tone&mdash;from delicate to bold&mdash;at the pianist&rsquo;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.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; --tw-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,  ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.15pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;">GrandTouch keyboard features wooden keys that showcase Yamaha&rsquo;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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.15pt; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 3; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #333333;">Leverage your artistic expression</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.15pt; line-height: normal; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #333333;">When playing a digital piano, the back area of the keys may prove to be a challenge to full musical expression. This is because the back of the key is closest to the fulcrum of the action. The closer to this pivot point that you strike the key, the less leverage you have and the more strength you need to apply. The greater length of GrandTouch keys give the player MORE leverage, allowing for better expressive control, even at the backs of the keys. This is the same support length found on the Yamaha S3X premium grand piano (as of July 2020), and is the longest support length used on any digital piano.</span></p>
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<h3 style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.15pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;">88-key Linear Graded Hammers&mdash;the first digital piano keyboard ever to feature realistic weighting on every key</span></h3>
<p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; --tw-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,  ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.15pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;">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.</span></p>
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<h3 style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.15pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;">Escapement mechanism of Clavinova keyboards</span></h3>
<p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; --tw-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,  ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.15pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;">The escapement mechanism in a grand piano moves the hammers away from the strings quickly after they strike them, in order to prevent any interference with string vibration. This mechanism produces a slight clicking sensation when the keys are pressed gently.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; --tw-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,  ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.15pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;">The Clavinova keyboards feature an escapement mechanism that reproduces this sensation near the bottom of the key dip. They have been designed in such a way that the click is discernible only on the lightest keystrokes, similar to the keyboard of a grand piano. These keyboards have been adjusted to provide additional friction that balances key repetition and response without impeding performance.</span></p>
<h3 style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.15pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333; font-weight: normal;">Virtual Resonance Modeling</span></h3>
<p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; --tw-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty,  ); --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.15pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;">One of the allures of the grand piano is the sympathetic resonance created by the vibration of the entire instrument. Clavinova pianos elaborately reproduce this rich sympathetic resonance through a groundbreaking technology called Virtual Resonance Modeling (VRM). VRM creates a richly varied sound by simulating the complex sympathetic tones created when the vibrations of the strings are propagated to the soundboard and other strings, corresponding to the timing and intensity of key playing and pedaling. CLP-700 Series pianos even replicate the sounds the dampers make when they are raised off the strings, in addition to the resonance of the duplex scaling, strings, soundboard, and case. Clavinova pianos allow you to enjoy the same momentary dynamics and deep sympathetic sounds that are produced by the entire body of a grand piano.</span></p>
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