Yamaha GB1K | SG2 Silent Grand Piano | Polished Ebony

Yamaha GB1K | SG2 Silent Grand Piano | Polished Ebony

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The  GB1K Grand Piano with Silent Piano functions in Polished Ebony

Yamaha GB1K Grand Piano

With the full resonant tone and range of classic grand pianos, the GB1K is an excellent choice for smaller rooms and budgets. Now featuring Yamaha’s Soft-close keyboard fall.

Incorporating the exceptional design concept of Yamaha’s coveted C Series, the beautiful GB1K produces a broad dynamic range with superb sound. Now, thanks to cost-saving advantages and substantial refinements in materials and production, this expressive and uncommonly affordable instrument is better than ever. Enjoy that fabulous Grand sound at a great value price.

“I have played Yamaha pianos since I was a child, and the lovely thing is that you can grow your skills along with Yamaha. They have a piano to love for everyone from beginner to the professional player” Niall, Piano sales in Waltons for over 40 years.

For further information feel free to text Niall on 087-2267740 and with “Call me Yamaha B series”

Features

Compact

The GB1K is Yamaha’s most compact grand. Yet despite its size, it offers a resonant tone and delicate playing ease—making everyday life with a fine and luxurious grand piano more accessible

The Frame

The frame in a piano must be able to withstand a total tension in excess of twenty tons. Not only does the frame work to support the string tension, but it has a profound effect on the instrument’s sound. Yamaha makes its own frames, relying on a method of casting referred to as “vacuum processing”, the world’s finest such technique developed over many years in creating some of the best frames. During this time Yamaha have built up a storehouse of knowledge on factors such as the manner in which controlling the temperature and composition of casting, and even the coating used on the frame itself, affects the acoustic characteristics of the piano. This is a major reason why Yamaha is able to ensure reliable quality when crafting their pianos.

Seasoned for Destination

Yamaha specially seasons every piano for its destination. The tuning stability, finish and overall musical integrity are enhanced over the long life expected of a fine piano.

Lid Prop Stopper

The GB1K Piano is equipped with a lid prop stopper to prevent your fingers from being caught if the Piano lid closes unexpectedly.

Soft Landing

The fall is fitted with a soft-landing mechanism, freeing you from the worry of it shutting on your fingers unexpectedly.

The Silent Piano from Yamaha offers enhanced Silent functions and an even richer sound – a piano you can play any time you want, with the natural touch of an acoustic grand piano.

Unique Technologies
Offering the superb sound and warm character of an acoustic piano, Yamaha’s Silent Piano allows you to plug in headphones and plays silently when you don’t want to disturb anyone else. But that is only the beginning! Churches and larger performance venues can send the perfect piano sound throughout the facility without the difficult challenge of mic’ing the piano. It can even control other MIDI instruments or you can layer MIDI sounds with the acoustic piano. The advanced technology and depth of knowledge behind the Silent Piano has imbued it with superb sound, touch, design, and functionality. This is truly a Silent instrument for those who love the acoustic grand piano.

Silent Pianos combine the best of acoustic and digital pianos:
Take a real acoustic piano and add the market leading Silent Piano technology to enable the piano to be played silently using headphones. When the silent function is activated, the hammers will no longer hit the strings and instead, a highly sophisticated sensor-technology captures all movements of the keys and sends them to the digital tone module. Play a real acoustic piano with headphones at any time, day or night without being disturbed or disturbing others. The Yamaha Silent System is unsurpassed, allowing 24hr practice as well as possessing many other features including a range of pre-installed sounds, being able to record your own performances or connecting mobile devices to use the latest Apps.

SG2 System
With stereo sampling from the world-renowned CFIIIS concert grand, Yamaha’s SG Type delivers rich resonance and an element of luxury. Ten voices, including harpsichord, pipe organ and strings, provide a wide range of musical expression. And built-in recording and playback functions, a USB port and 50 well-known demo songs pre-installed in the internal memory bring added entertainment and convenience.

Available on GB1, you can play with the great sound sampling from CFIIIS concert grand. Recording and playback functions are also available.

Yamaha’s uncompromising insistence on superb sound and resonance, available at a price suitable for smaller budgets Silent functionality has been added to this GB1. This is an SG2?type type Silent piano™ featuring a CFIIIS sound source.

What is SILENT Piano™?

When the SILENT Piano™ function is activated, the hammers will no longer hit the strings and instead, a highly sophisticated sensor-technology captures all movements of the keys and sends them to the digital tone module. Play a real acoustic piano with headphones at any time, day or night without being disturbed or disturbing others. The Yamaha Silencing System is unsurpassed, allowing 24hr practice as well as possessing many other features including a range of pre-installed sounds, being able to record your own performances or connecting mobile devices to use the latest Apps.

Two World-Renowned Piano Sounds

You can play SILENT Piano™ SC3 type with the voices of CFX, Yamaha’s finest concert grand piano, and Bösendorfer’s legendary Imperial. All 88 keys are sampled individually.　As Yamaha’s flagship grand piano, the majestic CFX boasts a wide palette of tonal colours, from sparkling high notes to powerful bass tones. The legendary Bösendorfer, meanwhile, is renowned for its sonorous and rich Viennese sound.

10 Various Voices

SILENT Piano™ SC3 type offers total 10 pre-installed sounds such as electric pianos, harpsichord, organs, strings, choir, and synth pad, allowing you to select the ideal voice to match your preferred musical genre.

Rich resonance and subtle accurate reproduction

CFX Binaural Sampling

Yamaha’s advanced binaural sampling technology uses samples from the CFX, Yamaha’s acclaimed concert grand piano, recorded with specialized microphones that capture locational information and other nuances discerned by the human ear. The resulting sound is so natural, so enveloping, that you’ll soon forget you’re even wearing headphones at all.

VRM physical modelling—the distinctive reverberation generated by the entire body of a concert grand piano

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 through enhanced Virtual Resonance Modelling (VRM). The original VRM 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. The enhanced VRM now also calculates aliquot resonance in the upper octaves, and the full resonance of the soundboard, rim, and frame. This technology allows for vivid, bright, richly-varied expression that reflects the limitless number of factors inherent in piano performance.

Stereophonic Optimizer (Piano Voices other than CFX Grand)

Stereophonic Optimizer is an effect which reproduces the natural sound distance, like with the sound of Binaural Sampling, even though you are listening to it on headphones. When one of the Piano Voices other than CFX Grand is selected, the Stereophonic Optimizer is enabled.

Smooth Release-From staccato to legato, superbly expressive sound that responds to the player’s touch

Featuring Yamaha Smooth Release technology, SILENT Piano™ SC3 type offers the crisp tone heard when playing staccato as well as the lingering sound produced by releasing the keys more. This provides finely-nuanced response to the pianist’s playing.

Key-Off samples

The moment a pianist’s fingers are lifted from the keys of a grand piano, subtle changes occur in the instrument’s tone as the damper is lowered onto the strings to mute its sound. Key-Off samples features actual recordings of these changes, offering a faithful reproduction of the most subtle changes in the piano’s sound, allowing for a more realistic performance.

Unique Yamaha technology retains the all-important touch of the piano

Key sensors

Under each of the 88 keys is a Yamaha-unique continuous-detection grey-scale shutter key sensor. These sensors detect the movement of the keys continually, allowing natural musical expression even when the piano is in SILENT Piano™ function. Since they do not come into contact with the keys, these sensors do not affect the feel of the keyboard in any way.

Quick escape system

Grand piano with SILENT Piano™ SC3 type features a quick escape system that allows the sound muting mechanism to be fitted to a grand piano without sacrificing any of the playability or musical expression demanded of such instruments in an acoustic performance. This system allows optimal separation to be obtained between the hammers and strings by adjusting the distance between the hammers and strings, ensuring that the feel of the keyboard stays in the best possible condition whether playing acoustically or with the sound muted.

General functions

Smart Pianist App

The smart device app “Smart Pianist” (available as a free download) enables you to use the functions such as selecting Voices, controlling the metronome intuitively with the visualized interface, or display the score on your smart device.

The UD-WL01 USB Wireless LAN Adaptor (sold separately) is required to use Smart Pianist over a wireless connection.

Sophisticated & simple design of the control panel

The control unit has been given a sophisticated design that unobtrusively blends with the piano itself. Moreover, the simple controllers allow you to operate the instrument easily.

Connection terminals

The USB TO HOST terminal allows you to connect to a computer or portable device and record high-quality audio without the need for an additional interface. AUX IN allows listening the sound from the external devices (sound source modules and music players).

Built-in recording and play back functions

SILENT Piano™ SC3 type can record one song in the internal memory. Additionally, connecting commercially available USB memory to the unit allows you save recording data, and play back songs.

Headphones

Simple and compact headphones that come with SILENT Piano™ SC3 type let you enjoy professional-grade sound quality.

Metronome

SILENT Piano™ SC3 type has a built-in metronome that can be used in SILENT Piano™ function so that players can listen to precise rhythm while they play.