$20, 000 for a piano might not seem budget friendly, but its a bargain when its nearly identical to a piano that has a price tag of $100,00 or more. The reason why for the steep discount is that the new Yamaha Avantgrand N3 is all digital. This result is a digital piano that mimics the touch of an acoustic piano by using the same key, level, and hammer mechanisms of an acoustic piano combined with special embedded speakers to recreate the feel of an acoustic piano’s keys to the player’s hands. It is also about half the size of a full grand piano. The four speakers on the piano’s soundboard are located in the same positions as the four microphones that were used to sample the nine-foot grand source instrument while the bottom panel of the Avant Grand houses four subwoofers with each speaker powered by a dedicated amplifier. The Avant Grand also features Yamaha’s newly-developed Tactile Response System (TRS) that focuses on reproducing reverberation and is designed to resonate the sound of the piano throughout its entire body thereby providing tactile feedback to the player. This system, which can be disabled, features two transducers in the soundboard, the area underneath the keyboard, resonating natural reverberation throughout the entire instrument.
First deliveries of the Yamaha Avant Grand N3 are expected in July 2009.
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