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Yamaha C1X TA3 Silent TransAcoustic Grand Piano

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Yamaha Silent TransAcoustic Grand Piano C1X TA3

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TransAcoustic functionality has been added to the GC1, a piano with the full resonant tone only a grand piano can possess, offering superior performance at an affordable price. This is a TA3 type TransAcoustic. 

TransAcoustic piano are genuine acoustic pianos, equipped with a volume control feature powered by Yamaha's latest technology. While it's also possible to play silently through headphones, the TransAcoustic Mode allows you to control the volume of your piano, so you can play without disturbing others. Even at low volumes, the soundboard vibrates so you can enjoy the full, physical sensation of natural acoustic sound as you play.

Yamaha's uncompromising insistence on superb sound and resonance, available at at price suitable for smaller budgets. Silencing system has been added to this GB1K. This is an SC3 type SILENT Piano.

SILENT pianos are genuine acoustic pianos equipped with Yamaha's advanced silencing technology. When the keys are played in SILENT Mode, the hammers are stopped immediately before striking the strings so that the piano itself generates no sound. Sensors installed below the keys decipher how the keys are played and relay the data to the digital tone generator, which generates sampled sounds that can be heard through a pair of headphones. By allowing players to play a true acoustic piano sound under normal circumstances, or to put on headphones and play in SILENT Mode avoid disturbing others, SILENT Piano makes any time a good time to sit down at the piano. 

Simply play your acoustic piano

At its heart, the SILENT Piano is a genuine acoustic instrument. For more than a century, Yamaha has crafted pianos that inspire players to develop and express themselves, mirroring their thoughts and feelings with rich sound and reliable quality.

Control the volume as you play

TransAcoustic pianos make it possible to play with true acoustic sound under normal circumstances, or to turn on TransAcoustic Mode so that you can use the volume control to continue playing without disturbing others. In TransAcoustic Mode, your piano becomes a speaker, so you don't have to wear headphones or deal with bothersome and unsightly cables. Although the sound is now being created digitally, the soundboard still vibrates and the strings and the body of the still resonate, so that you hear the music as well as feeling it through your body. With near-acoustic resonance in TransAcoustic Mode, you can continue to make progress in your daily practice without disturbing family member or neighbors.

Play silently with headphones 

TransAcoustic pianos are also equipped with SILENT Mode, so you can plug in headphones and enjoy realistic piano sounds at any time of the day and night, without disturbing anyone- or anyone disturbing you.

Use your piano as a speaker! 

You can use your TransAcoustic Piano as a speaker and enjoy listening to preset songs, recordings of your own performances and even music from your smartphone or other devices via Bluetooth. You can also play along with songs streamed from your devices, adding the piano part for ensemble performances. Both the external music and sound of the piano pass through the soundboard and body of the piano, combining to create a rich resonance.

Download the Smart Pianist app

SILENT Pianos are equipped with Bluetooth MIDI. Download the Smart Pianist app on your smart device and connect wirelessly to you SILENT Piano to enjoy simple, intuitive control of your instrument's features. 

TransAcoustic TECHNOLOGY

Making sounds resonate

Pressing a key on an acoustic piano causes its hammer to strike the corresponding string, making those strings vibrate. The initial sound is small, but it's amplified by the soundboard with the entire body of the piano serving as a resonator. The result: the distinctively rich sound of an acoustic piano. TransAcoustic technology employs this same mechanism of resonance keyed by the soundboard through a digital tone generator.

Creating acoustic sound from digital audio sources

With TransAcoustic technology, there's no need for a speaker unit, even though the sounds are generated digitally. All that's required is a transducer. In TransAcoustic Mode, the hammers are stopped immediately before striking the strings, and sensors installed below the keys decipher how they are played. The transducer's job is to convert the digital signals that represent your input into vibrations, and then relay them to the soundboard. The soundboard amplifies the vibrations, and the entire piano vibrates sympathetically. Even though the sound is digital, it goes through the same mechanism of resonance, meaning that the sound that reaches your ears is as rich as that of an acoustic piano. You can also control the volume and still enjoy the feel of playing an acoustic piano.

A special transducer for acoustic pianos

Conventional transducer are too heavy to install on a piano soundboard; their weight compromises its essential functions. To address this problem, Yamaha developed a transducer faithfully reproduces the natural sound of acoustic pianos without inhibiting the functions of the soundboards.

Features Shared by the TransAcoustic Piano and SILENT Piano

Articulation Sensor System: Both TransAcoustic and SILENT pianos feature Yamaha's newly developed Articulation Sensor System, which accurately interprets how actual pianos respond to the movements of pianists' fingers, which are relayed from the keys through the action, causing the hammers to strike the strings. With Yamaha's proprietary algorithm, the system delivers high-precision simulations of the movements of the hammers that the moment they strike the strings, reproducing every piano sound exactly the way the player intended. These sensors are non-contact, so they do not impact the feel of the piano.

Grand pianos feature sensors on the hammers for more accurately detecting and deciphering a wider range of key motion (eg. slow keystrokes, quick trills) when the hammers actually strike the strings. Like the key sensors, the hammer sensor are non-contact, so they do not impact the touch of the piano.

Grand Expression Modeling: Grand Expression Modeling is a new feature that faithfully reproduces the tonal variation originating from the inner workings of the piano, such as the way the hammers strike and the dampers contact the strings in response to the player's touch. This feature detects the force and acceleration of the keystrokes and changes the audio output accordingly in real time, providing the player with the ability to explore subtle tonal nuances, even in TransAcoustic or SILENT mode.

Virtual Resonance Modeling: One of the great allures of the grand piano is the sympathetic resonance created by the vibration of the entire instrument. Yamaha's further advanced Virtual Resonance Modeling technology elaborately reproduces this rich sympathetic resonance. This technology makes it possible to create richly varied tones by adding sympathetic tones that correspond to the timing and intensity of keystrokes and pedaling to the complex, varied sympathetic tones created when the vibrations of the strings are propagated to the other strings and the soundboard.  Virtual Resonance Modeling even replicated the sounds the damper makes when they are lifted off the strings, along with the resonance of the aliquot stringing, string, soundboard, and case. Experience the deep, dynamic resonance that originates from the case of the piano.

Add pizazz to your playing: Equipped with 20 different rhythm types that provide automatic accompaniment with drums and bass.

Two Recording Functions: 

[Built-in recording function for checking immediately after playing]

Equipped with a built-in recording function for recording at the touch of a button.

[USB flash drive recording to data for computer playback]

A function for recording to a USB flash drive. This function creates audio files that can be saved or played back on computers of burned onto CDs. Recordings are saved in WAV format.

Available in 5 finishes:

  • Polished Ebony
  • Polished Mahogany
  • Satin American Walnut
  • Satin Ebony 
  • Polished White
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