MP500S

The Yamaha MIDIPiano lets you connect traditional tone, touch and elegance to the world of digital electronics. The quality and craftsmanship inherent in every Yamaha piano are combined with state-of-the-art fiber optic technology. Multi-point optical sensors at each key and pedal register every facet of the player's performance with unparalleled precision, instantly transforming keystrokes into digital data. This opens the doorway to a new world of creative educational opportunities.

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface connects the MIDIPiano to other keyboards, external modules (like the Yamaha DSR1 Digital Sequencer Recorder) and computers.

World-renowned Yamaha tone and touch give you the ultimate in performance capabilities. Plus, the beauty and elegance of traditional piano styling and Yamaha’s attention to detail will accent any environment.

The on-board digital piano expands your playing potential. The sound of a Yamaha concert grand is digitally recorded and captured on a powerful computer chip and available at your fingertips.

Plug in the headphones and enter your own concert hall environment with the tone and ambiance of a concert grand on stage. Add the piano mute rail and you can play in complete privacy.

The key-release velocity feature can detect and respond to expressive fingering, capturing the speed each key is released. Key-release velocity results in the capturing the characteristic sound and feel of an acoustic piano while playing the digital piano.

Plug in the headphones and enter your own concert hall environment with the tone and ambiance of a concert grand on stage. Add the piano mute rail and you can play in complete privacy.

Add the acoustic environment of a concert hall.

Project the sampled sound of a concert grand through speakers or direct to a tape deck.

When you engage the Piano Mute Rail, the hammers will not strike the strings, allowing you to play MIDI sounds or the onboard digital piano sound without hearing the acoustic piano. This feature instantly converts the MIDIPiano into the perfect MIDI controller or multi-track instrument.

Yamaha specifically seasons this piano for the U.S. market. The tuning stability, finish and overall musical integrity are enhanced over the long life expected of a fine piano.

Yamaha utilizes a process that creates a permanent crown in the soundboard and at the same time minimizes soundboard cracking. The customer can feel confident that the piano last for years, and the beautiful sound of a Yamaha piano will last a lifetime.

At the Yamaha lumber mill and wood processing facility, the finest spruce is quarter sawn and less than 10% of the total is selected and reserved for Yamaha piano soundboards. Solid spruce, rather than laminated spruce or poplar is the choice in all fine pianos for the best amplification of sound, best tone and sustain.

Yamaha reinforces the crown in its soundboards by using ribs that continue to the edge of the soundboard, and are glued into the notched liner (or inner rim on the grand piano). Reinforcing the crown ensures that the tone quality will remain for years and years and improves tuning stability.

Yamaha uses V-PRo (Vacuum Shield Mold Process) in casting the iron frame (plate). V-Pro plates are stronger and visually more appealing. Critical dimensions are accurately produced.

Yamaha engineering developed a unique Extruded Aluminum Alloy Action Rail (bearing a Yamaha patent) that is one of the best innovations for improving a piano action in the last 100 years. The usual fluctuations in wood rails that effect touch, caused by periodic weather changes, is eliminated allowing stable, long-lasting action regulation.

Each key of a Yamaha piano is individually tested and measured for the corrections needed to obtain uniform "down weight" pressure. Yamaha actions play correctly and uniformly. This balancing helps ensure a lifetime of superior touch and control across the keyboard.

Yamaha designs all grand and vertical pianos to have the same key travel. Regardless of size, type or model of Yamaha piano, the keyboards will always feel the same.

Yamaha uses Spruce for the keys on all models of pianos. Spruce is very light and possesses a very high ratio of strength to weight. It is ideal for key construction, even though its cost is greater than either sugar pine or basswood. Yamaha keyboards respond quickly providing fast repetition for the most intricate piece of music. Yamaha keyboards withstand heavy use over years of fortissimo passages.

The Yamaha Servicebond Assurance Program is provided to the customer, without additional charge, 3-8 months after delivery of their piano. This service is a thorough check up and adjustment procedure to "rejuvenate" a piano after play-in and acclimation to its new environment. After 3-8 months or so of settling and becoming acclimatized, the piano will receive the benefit of a service visit to return it to the conditions specified by the manufacturer. MIDI In/Out Yamaha Tone, Touch Elegance Built-In Digital Piano Sound Headphones Reverb Audio Out Piano Mute Rail Full length ribs into a notched liner Solid spruce soundboard and ribs Acoustibars Solid copper wound bass strings Hard maple bridges Aluminum alloy action rails Yamaha balanced action Spruce keys with hardwood buttons Grand piano key travel Cut thread tuning pins Mute pedal Yamaha designed hammers with T-fasteners Lacquer finish Vacuum Shield Mold Process (V-Pro) plate Seasoned for destination Yamaha ServiceBond™ Assurance Program