Chords for Yamaha AvantGrand Hybrid Piano Review Demo

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Hi, my [Eb] name is John Ibata.
[Dm] We're here at Cosmo [Bb] Music's Piano Loft, [Eb] and we're going to take
a look at a new [Am] technology [Ab] from Yamaha.
They [Gm] call it a hybrid piano because it [C] combines
a [Am] real grand piano [Gb] action with the highest [A]
level of [Bb] digital [Ebm] technology in reproducing
the sound.
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I sort of [F] call it our dream piano. _
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[Bbm] _ _ _ [C] They make [Ab] it in a number [Gm] of different [C] shapes,
in this [Am] case, _ [D] [Cm] even smaller than what most [F] people would call a baby grand.
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[B] The [F] difference,
though, is you're playing [G] a real grand [Eb] piano action.
[Am] And we'll [Ab] take a look, actually, [Gm] at
the total [Fm] inside of [Bbm] the action.
It's [F] from the C-Series Yamaha [Gm] _ Concert [C] Grands.
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[F] _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ [F] You can
see in this case [Bb] the beautiful grand [F] piano _ [Bb] design.
It has [Db] the slow fall [Eb] fallboard like
[Am] the grand [Ab] pianos.
It [Gm] also [F] comes in a [Am] square grand shape, [F] sort of like an [Gm] upright piano
that [F] opens up.
And [Eb] there's also [F] another series, [C] so that would be the N2.
There's also [F] the
N1, which [Eb] 88 [A] notes [B] still with the grand [Dm] piano touch without the [Bb] opening. _
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[Db] _ [Cm] _ _ [Am] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [G] _
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[B] So on [G] this [Eb] piano,
[Bb] there's actually five different [Eb] sounds, [A] two [F] nine [Ab]-foot [G] concert grand [Bbm] pianos.
[Cm] So if you
think of having a Yamaha _ [F] [Gm] CFX or CF3 nine [C]-foot concert [Gm] grand fully [F] midi'd up so I can [C] record,
[F] I can send, print out my [A] notation that I'm [D] playing.
I [Gm] can have all the benefits of digital
[Cm] technology.
I can [Fm] plug headphones into it.
I have [Cm] a volume [B] control.
[F] [Bb] All [Fm] those benefits
are in [Am] the [Ab] piano.
_ _ Plus, I [G] not only have [Fm] my first piano [C] _ and my mellow [Db] piano, [Eb] I also have
[F] I can [C] switch to [Dm] another [Bb] _ brighter piano.
So for piano [F] _
technicians or _ [Bb] acoustic piano people,
it's like you've got [C] harder hammers at [F] the pianissimo. _
[C] So _ [B] it's a brighter [Bb] tone. _
So a
warm [Eb] sound for your romantic [A] _ [Ab]
Chopin's and a [Gm] brighter [Bb] tone for your Bach, your [F] jazz,
your pop rock.
There's also two electric pianos and a harpsichord.
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [B] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ So here [Am] we [Bb] have _ [Gm] the only
one in the [F] world, _ [Bbm] an actual [Am] [G] real model of [Gm] the action [C] of a Yamaha [Gb]
[F] Avon Grand Series piano.
[Cm] And for those who [Bb] have ever seen the inside of a grand piano, it's exactly the same key
action.
You can see the key _ _ _ is a [Ab] concert grand level _ length of [D] key.
_ All [Bb] the _ _ [Fm]
[Bb] whippens, [Cm] levers,
[Gb] hammer shanks [Bb] are all identical [Em] to the Yamaha [F] concert grand. _
[Gb] The touch of the [B] piano right
[E] down [D] to the [Am] sensation of [D] when you hit a note on a grand [Cm] piano, the key bed [Dbm] [A] vibrates.
That's
[D] also in [Bb] here.
You can [Eb] see it is a [A] hardwood key bed, the same as the Yamaha concert [Dm] grand,
_ [Db] aluminum [Bb] [B] extruded rails, [Bb] all that.
Instead of a [Eb] physical _
[Ab] _ [Eb] felt [Ab] hammer, you have [D] these
weights and you can [F] see at the bottom, [Dm] _ at the [Gm] bottom of the keyboard, they're [Gb] actually
[F] heavier and [Em] at the top, they're [C] actually [F] lighter, the same as a [Gb] concert grand, but [B] we're actually
[E] playing a real [Cm] action [D] on the [G] hybrid pianos.
[Eb] _ You [Dbm] can see these in the [Dm] _ [Eb] clear, the clear
and they're [A] actually [E] digital [A] optical sensors [D] that are used.
[Db] _ [C] One of the [B] benefits [F] of [Bb] the
hybrid piano [Eb] is instead of the [Ab] limitation of digital [Fm] keyboards being [Ab] to [D] 127 MIDI [F] velocity, [Bb] _ _ when [Eb] _ _ [Gb] Yamaha [Bb] bought Bosendorfer, [Em] Bosendorfer had the Soos [F] digital system as well as [Gbm] Yamaha had their own [Bm] Disclavier system. [Em] And it's [Am] approximately, [G] Yamaha never published [Gm] their exact specs, but [Db] _ instead of [Bb] to 127, [Eb] it's about _ [E] 1024. [A] _ So much [F] wider tonal [Abm] [Eb] range [C] and with [Bb] the real touch of the [Eb] grand piano at your fingers, right to [Ab] the sensation of you feel the vibration in your [Db] fingers, even the damper [Fm] pedal on the grand version, the N3 is a mechanical pedal. So when you sit down and close your eyes, you're [G] playing a concert [Gm] grand Yamaha. _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
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